Technical University teachers begin strike as lecturers at STU abandons class
Technical University Teachers Association begins strike over government's failure to address the condition of service concerns despite the National Labour Commission's order to for the strike to be suspend.
Nana Ama Asiedu Francisca 
The Lecturers at the Sunyani Technical University have abandoned class after the leadership of the Technical Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) says its members will go-ahead to abandon class from Monday, June 14, 2021, despite a directive from the National Labour Commission to call off the strike and come to the negotiation table on Wednesday.
The Association is protesting among other things poor conditions of service and the frustrations the technical Universities encounter in getting accreditation for academic programmes.
Speaking on Ark in the Morning monitored by Soiree News, the Bono Regional Vice-Chairman of TUTAG, Eric Kwaku Asare said the strike is in force pending the meeting with the Labour Commission.
Sunyani Technical University
According to him, the decision was taken at their congress and cannot be reversed by one person.
“We only received an invitation to attend a meeting on Wednesday in which it indicated that it heard that we are going to embark on a strike effective Monday, June 14, 2021, and that we should refrain from it.
“It is a congress decision for us to go on strike, and so we are going to meet the NLC on Wednesday and listen to what they have to say, but for now nothing is going to change until we know what the NLC has for us.” Mr Eric Kwaku Asare said.
However, Soiree News Nana Ama Asiedu’s visit saw students stranded as there were no tutors around to attend to them. Some students who spoke to soiree News pleaded on the government to as a matter of urgency attend to the needs of the tutors to end this striking saga once and for all.
