{"id":44416,"date":"2014-09-03T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=44416"},"modified":"2014-09-03T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T12:11:48","slug":"utag-calls-off-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=44416","title":{"rendered":"UTAG calls off strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has called off its five-week strike.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced after leadership of the Association met their members to convey the outcome of the association&#8217;s deliberations with government on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>UTAG withdrew their services to demand the payment of the research and book allowance.<\/p>\n<p>But a statement signed by the association\u2019s National President, Samuel Ofori Bekoe, said their decision follows \u201ca Memorandum of Understanding signed between UTAG and government on the payment of the 2013\/2014 Book and Research Allowance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also government showed \u201cwillingness to negotiate with UTAG on its conditions of service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teachers had demanded a lump-sum payment for their book and research allowance for both last year and the impending academic year.<\/p>\n<p>National President of UTAG, Dr. Samuel Ofori Bekoe in an earlier interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said: \u201cIf they say they are going to pay in September then we are taking for the past and current academic year. We are no longer going to pre-finance the activities for research\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has called off its five-week strike. This was announced after leadership of the Association met their members to convey the outcome of the association&#8217;s deliberations with government on Tuesday. UTAG withdrew their services to demand the payment of the research and book allowance. But a statement signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,16],"class_list":["post-44416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}