The Tertiary and Educational Workers’ Union of the Trade Union Congress of Ghana has reiterated its stance on the indefinite strike, saying, “Our strike is legal, justified and binding.”
The Union said TEWU had complied with every procedural requirement under the Labour Act, 2003 (Act 651).
This was in a statement signed by King James Azortibah, the General Secretary of TEWU-TUC, copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.
TEWU-TUC on Friday, September 19, declared an indefinite strike due to the delay in implementing its conditions of service.
The statement said TEWU would only suspend the strike when a clear mandate was given to the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) by the Ministry of Finance and other government employers.
“We want all our conditions of service to be finalised and signed by the FWSC and assured of payment of the reviewed amount of CPDA to non-teaching staff in GES in September 2025,” the statement said.
The statement said the strike was necessitated because of the government’s delay in signing the conditions of service of its members in all the public and technical universities, the non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service, the Ghana Library Authority and the staff of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.
It said the FWSC and employers had defied the National Labour Commission deadlines.
Giving the historical antecedents, the statement said in November 2024, TEWU embarked on strike, but the NLC directed the union to suspend the action to allow for negotiations.
It said on September 5, 2025, TEWU issued a formal notice of strike to employers and copied the same to the NLC.
On September 8, 2025, the NLC wrote to FWSC regarding TEWU’s complaint, for which FWSC was given a seven-day deadline of September 15, 2025, but the Commission failed to respond.
Source: GNA
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