Members of the University Teachers Association, UTAG have defied the court order for them to return to the lecture halls.
There has been no show across all university campuses in the country as the UTAG strike enters the 6th week.
The UG Chapter President for UTAG Dr. Samuel Nkumbaan explained that they are yet to receive the certified copy of the ruling to determine the next line of action.
"We are yet to get the certified copy that will give us the specific details that the court is requiring of us so categorically we can not state as we speak that we are going back to the classroom tomorrow [today]."
An Accra High Court has granted an injunction application filed against the strike by the Universities Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
The National Labour Commission (NLC) last month filed the injunction to compel the university teachers to return to the lecture halls, but the court first urged the two parties to try resolving the impasse out of court.
But an out-of-court resolution hit a snag.
The NLC has always held that the strike by UTAG was illegal.
This was after a meeting with the labour unions and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations was held on Thursday, January 13, 2022.
After the meeting, Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Bright Wireku Brobbey told journalists that the government is expecting the unions to do the needful.
“In the spirit of transparency and very mutual respect for them, they have assured them that whatever allowance is due them because they were captured in the 2022 budget January they are going to be paid. Therefore the Commission has directed that they go and call off the strike immediately.
But UTAG failed to call off the strike, a situation that forced the NLC to go to court to enforce its order.
After court proceedings on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, the lawyer for the UTAG, Kwesi Keli-Deletaa, said “The motion was seeking to enforce the directive of the labour commission which was filed before the injunction application was filed.
“In our view, the main motion which is seeking to enforce the directive of the NLC should have been heard first but the judge thought otherwise and decided that the injunction application should be heard first and the outcome of that application is what you all witnessed in court today. The judge decided to grant the interlocutory injunction application.”