A meeting between the government and the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) which was aimed at finding a solution to the current industrial action ended Thursday morning in a deadlock.
The meeting ended after three hours of deliberations, which was geared towards addressing UTAG’s concerns.
Sources at the Ministry of Education according to Daily Graphic report said “the parties could not arrive at any conclusion”.
They said the parties, therefore, decided to head to the court to rule on the matter.
The High Court (Labour Division) last Thursday asked the parties to resolve the issue and report back to it Thursday.
In attendance at the meeting chaired by the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum said, were the representatives of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the National Labour Commission.
Today’s meeting followed an earlier one last Tuesday where some gains were said to have been made.
Meanwhile, The Labour Division of the Accra Circuit Court has directed the National Labour Commission (NLC) and the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to continue settling their matter out-of-court.
The judge, Frank Rockson Aboadwe, had ordered the two parties on Thursday, February 3 to consider an out-of-court settlement and report back on Thursday, February 10 at the next hearing.
As of the said date, when the case was re-called, the two parties were yet to reach a settlement.
An invitation to UTAG by NLC to meet over the issue was declined by the former, choosing rather to meet government officials and report back to the latter.
The said meeting began on Tuesday, February 8 but could not conclude that very day and had to continue on Thursday.
With this yet to see an end, Justice Aboadwe adjourned sitting to Tuesday, February 15.
The NLC had dragged UTAG to court after declaring the strike by the university lecturers as illegal.
The lecturers were, thus, ordered to return to the lecture halls but this was not complied with, forcing the Commission to head to court.
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