DOSSIER: Strikes

Strikes in Ghana

• Youth in Afforestation workers storm Finance Ministry over 5 months unpaid 'allawa' (2021-05-07)
• Senior university staff to resume strike on May 18 (2021-05-06)
• Kumasi Airport: G7 Security Systems denies salary, SSNIT payment delays (2021-05-01)
• No to gov't bullying - Teachers (2021-04-20)
• Strike should not be your option - Kwame Baah to public sector workers (2021-04-07)
• Kejetia traders threaten naked demonstration (2021-03-29)
• Health Services Workers’ Union threaten strike over conditions of service (2021-03-24)
• Telecom Union workers suspend industrial action (2021-03-16)
• Your threats won’t stop our strike – Telecom workers to management (2021-03-15)
• Telecom workers to embark on strike (2021-03-13)
• Airport staff to strike again March 15 if concerns are not addressed (2021-02-27)
• Airport staff ‘halt’ strike (2021-02-26)
• End strike and return to negotiation table – NLC to SSA-UOG (2021-01-28)
• TEWU rejects government’s 8% allowance increase says it’s an insult (2021-01-25)
• Universities senior staff declare nationwide strike (2021-01-21)
• Senior university staff begin strike today (2021-01-21)
• TEWU expects quick and positive response from government - IRO (2021-01-21)
• Ignore declaration from national executives, we’re still on strike – UG TEWU (2021-01-20)
• Registration ongoing smoothly at KTU despite TEWU strike (2021-01-15)
• TEWU Strike: AAM-USTED members join action (2021-01-15)
• TEWU strike: Some 200 support staff of UHAS absent (2021-01-15)
• Pay us or we hit the streets - NUGS to SLTF (2021-01-15)
• TEWU continues strike after inconclusive meeting with gov’t (2021-01-14)
• Ghanaian Times: Government and TEWU should dialogue (2021-01-14)
• UG: Freshers stranded at various halls of residence over TEWU strike (2021-01-14)
• Govt, FWSC hold meeting with TEWU over conditions of service (2021-01-14)
• Pay us or we hit the streets – NUGS to SLTF (2021-01-14)
• TEWU begins nationwide strike tomorrow over conditions of service (2021-01-12)
• Coca-Cola workers demonstrate over wrongful dismissal of colleagues (2021-01-11)
• Nurses to sign agreement on Tuesday, no strike for at least 2 years (2020-11-01)
• Senior staff of universities begin strike today over conditions of service (2020-10-19)
• Senior staff of universities declare strike (2020-10-16)
• KATH Nursing Trainees lament over locked up allowance (2020-10-06)
• GCNet workers resume strike over unpaid redundancy package (2020-10-06)
• Coalition of Aggrieved Teachers call for dissolution of Teacher Unions over unpaid salaries (2020-10-02)
• Angry teachers picket GES over legacy arrears (2020-09-30)
• Thank you nurses & midwives for canceling your strike - Prof Kofi Agyekum (2020-09-25)
• GRNMA: Huge relief to patients as health workers suspend strike (2020-09-24)
• Our strike has shown how important we are – Nurses and Midwives Association (2020-09-24)
• Auxiliary staff take over nurses’ roles in Hohoe (2020-09-24)
• GRNMA members at Akatsi District Hospital resume work (2020-09-24)
• Nurses to resume work today - Labour Commission (2020-09-23)
• Nurses, Midwives to call off strike as NLC goes into compulsory arbitration (2020-09-23)
• If it is not an emergency, do not come – Eastern Regional Hospital Doctor to patients (2020-09-23)
• Patients, pregnant women in Western Region stranded over GRNMA's strike (2020-09-23)
• Nursing mothers plead with government to call back striking nurses (2020-09-23)
• Govt has been good to you, resume work - Buaben Asamoa to striking Nurses, Midwives (2020-09-23)
• TUTAG threatens strike (2020-09-23)
• Patients plead for striking nurses to return as Atebubu Hospital operates at half capacity (2020-09-23)
• Ketu South Municipal Hospital empty as GRNMA embarks on industrial action (2020-09-23)
• Okoe-Boye sends message to nurses over ongoing strike action (2020-09-23)
• Promptly address the needs of striking nurses – GARH tells govt (2020-09-22)
• Our strike is justified - GRNMA to Fair Wages Commission (2020-09-22)
• GRNMA Strike: We are helpless, patients to govt (2020-09-22)
• Pregnant women turned away at Chuchuliga Health Centre (2020-09-21)
• 3 health groups give govt last chance to address concerns or they strike Monday (2020-09-18)
• 'Aayalolo' bus drivers on strike (2020-02-24)
• GHone TV workers shut down station over unpaid salaries (2020-02-19)
• Students demand speedy resolution of govt, TUTAG impasse (2020-01-22)
• TUTAG calls off strike (2020-01-16)
• Court orders TUTAG and TUSAAG to call off strike (2020-01-16)
• TUTAG members expected to return to work after court order (2020-01-15)
• TUTAG accuses NLC of threatening teachers over ongoing strike (2020-01-14)
• Unemployed teachers arrested for unlawful assembly at GES (2020-01-13)
• Technical University teachers to lose salaries, jobs over illegal strike (2020-01-13)
• Greater Accra TUTAG members to return to work today (2020-01-13)
• All you need to know about the Government-TUTAG impasse (2020-01-13)
• All you need to know about the Government-TUTAG impasse (2020-01-13)
• National Labour Commission directs NCTE to pay striking teachers (2020-01-11)
• TUTAG strike: We’ll honour NLC’s directive – Labour Minister (2020-01-10)
• Strike action: TUTAG acting in bad faith - NCTE reacts (2020-01-10)
• GNUTS calls for calm among members amidst TUTAG, TUSAAG strike (2020-01-09)
• TUSAAG declares indefinite strike over unpaid allowances (2020-01-08)
• Government to meet leadership of TUSAAG today over ongoing strike (2020-01-08)
• Accra Technical University SRC unhappy with government’s handling of TUTAG strike (2020-01-08)
• ‘We’re not small boys’ – Striking TUTAG to govt, NCTE (2020-01-07)
• Striking teachers still absent in schools in Kumasi (2019-12-16)
• Metro Mass Transit drivers embark on sit down strike (2019-12-16)
• You’re an ungrateful ex-teacher, a symbol of Ghana’s low politics – NAGRAT boss fires Minister (2019-12-14)
• 'We use illegal strikes to get things done' – Striking teachers insist (2019-12-14)
• 'We use illegal strikes to get things done' – Striking teachers confess (2019-12-14)
• GRIDCo staff suspend sit-down strike but red flags stay up (2019-12-13)
• Striking teachers to return to class following court order (2019-12-12)
• Striking teachers to return to class following court order (2019-12-12)
• Teachers announce end of strike, mulls over next move (2019-12-12)
• NLC now ‘impotent’ after court intervention – NAGRAT (2019-12-12)
• Education Ministry commends NLC for halting teachers’ strike (2019-12-12)
• Teachers legacy arrears to be cleared by December 19 - Controller (2019-12-12)
• Teacher unions vow to resume strike after 10-day injunction (2019-12-12)
• We will return to the classroom but won’t teach – Striking Teachers (2019-12-12)
• No activity in public schools (2019-12-12)
• NLC explains reason for court order against striking teachers (2019-12-12)
• GNAT to meet legal team over court order (2019-12-12)
• We’re not poor beggars; we’ll never beg any gov’t for food – Teachers to Nsowah (2019-12-11)
• Biased NLC now spokesperson for government – Teachers (2019-12-11)
• Teachers strike comment: Edu. Minister lacked emotional intelligence – Baako (2019-12-11)
• Dansonman teachers abandon classrooms as strike action begins (2019-12-10)
• Call off illegal strike immediately - NLC orders teachers (2019-12-10)
• Labour Commission orders teacher unions to call off ‘illegal’ strike (2019-12-10)
• Please return to the classrooms – PTA begs teachers (2019-12-10)
• NLC to meet striking Teacher Unions over salary arrears concerns (2019-12-10)
• Teacher Unions demand full payment of arrears before they call-off strike (2019-12-10)
• Teachers on strike but others attend classes (2019-12-10)
• Politicians don’t love Ghana more than striking teachers – Kwesi Pratt (2019-12-10)
• GES shocked at Teacher Unions ‘illegitimate’ strike (2019-12-06)
• Teachers declare strike (2019-12-05)
• Three teacher unions declare nationwide strike (2019-12-05)
• Unemployed teachers picket at Education Ministry to demand postings (2019-11-26)
• Government confident of getting doctors to shelve Monday’s strike (2019-11-15)
• Judicial Service, Staff tussle over strike (2019-11-15)
• We won’t end our strike, only court can declare it illegal - JUSAG to NLC (2019-11-14)
• Go back to work now – JUSAG ordered (2019-11-14)
• Judicial service staff refuse to call off strike (2019-11-14)
• Return To Post – Judicial Staff Told (2019-11-14)
• JUSAG strike illegal – NLC (2019-11-13)
• Labour Commission to drag JUSAG to court over ‘illegal’ strike (2019-11-13)
• GMA to strike next Monday over service conditions (2019-11-11)
• Doctors give govt one week to renew service conditions (2019-11-11)
• Government has not taken us seriously – GMA (2019-11-11)
• We’ve sacrificed for the past year; no more extensions – GMA (2019-11-11)
• Striking Technical University lecturers to starts work on Monday (2019-11-02)
• GNAT calls on government to make retraining of teachers a priority (2019-10-30)
• TUWAG threatens to join TUTAG strike over service conditions (2019-10-27)
• Be tough on govt until your demands are met – MP to TUTAG (2019-10-25)
• ‘Claims about our migration onto Single Spine Salary Structure untrue’ – TUTAG (2019-10-25)
• TUTAG rejects gov’t proposals after eight-hour long stakeholders meeting (2019-10-24)
• TUTAG strike: Academic calendar may be extended – Vice Chancellors hint (2019-10-23)
• Return to work – Technical Universities VCs appeal to TUTAG, TUAAG (2019-10-22)
• Government appeals to TUTAG to call off strike (2019-10-22)
• Technical Universities VCs appeal to TUTAG, TUAAG to call off strike (2019-10-22)
• Administrators in Technical Universities declare indefinite strike (2019-10-19)
• UDS students threaten demo over power disconnection on campus (2019-10-03)
• NAGRAT defies orders to call off strike (2019-09-13)
• We won’t call off - NAGRAT insists (2019-09-13)
• NAGRAT to meet National Labour Commission over strike (2019-09-10)
• We’ll chase out teachers who defy ongoing strike – U/E NAGRAT (2019-09-09)
• You can’t invite us for deliberations through radio – NAGRAT to NLC (2019-09-09)
• NAGRAT Strike: Blacklegs will be chased from Classrooms – Leaders warn (2019-09-07)
• Coalition of concerned teachers threaten to join NAGRAT’s strike (2019-09-07)
• NAGRAT’s strike justified – Clement Apaak (2019-09-06)
• Jirapa Nursing Training: Trainees cry over 10 months’ unpaid allowances (2019-08-30)
• NAGRAT threatens to withdraw services over unsolicited insurance policy deductions (2019-07-31)
• Lecturers threaten strike over salary structure (2019-07-30)
• West Gonja Hospital nurses call off strike (2019-07-12)
• Pay us now or we’ll shut down schools we built – Contractors to government (2019-06-12)
• Mortuary workers urged to rescind decision (2019-06-08)
• Mortuary workers call off strike (2019-06-06)
• Striking mortuary workers’ spokesperson arrested, granted bail (2019-06-04)
• ‘Be reasonable, your demands are above us’ – Health Ministry to Mortuary workers (2019-06-01)
• Go for your dead bodies – Health Ministry to bereaved families (2019-06-01)
• Go for your dead bodies – Health Ministry to bereaved families (2019-06-01)
• ‘Mortuary workers’ strike just in bad faith’ – Fair Wages (2019-06-01)
• Mortuary workers’ strike enters day three (2019-05-31)
• Postpone all your funerals - Mortuary workers (2019-05-31)
• Frustration at morgues intensifies following mortuary workers’ strike (2019-05-31)
• Mortuary workers begin strike over GHC150 pay, poor working conditions (2019-05-29)
• CLOGSAG calls off strike against political interference (2019-05-28)
• Mortuary Workers threaten another indefinite strike (2019-05-27)
• Mortuary Workers threaten another strike over poor working conditions (2019-05-26)
• Mortuary workers suspend planned strike to negotiate with Fair Wages Commission (2019-05-02)
• Mortuary workers angry; threaten strike again (2019-04-18)
• Teachers kick against imposition of insurance policy (2019-04-05)
• MDU ‘concerned’ over new container terminal (2019-01-30)
• NPFS meets with Ghana Tanker Drivers Union (2019-01-29)
• CETAG gives government 14-day ultimatum to begin negotiations on allowances (2018-12-16)
• We’ll revert to our strike by January – CETAG warns (2018-12-13)
• Colleges of Education resume (2018-12-10)
• Teacher trainees return to class today after CETAG strike (2018-12-10)
• Labour Commission orders CETAG to call off strike (2018-12-05)
• Call off your strike now – NLC orders CETAG (2018-12-04)
• Colleges of Education close down over CETAG strike (2018-11-30)
• CETAG strike takes toll as students threaten to pack home (2018-11-29)
• Striking teachers cry over pay (2018-11-29)
• CETAG members to be denied November salary over ‘illegal’ strike – NCTE (2018-11-17)
• Go back to school – Prof Yankah appeals to striking teachers (2018-11-13)
• National Service nurses on strike (2018-11-07)
• St Boscos lecturers join College of Education strike (2018-11-03)
• Coalition of Concerned Teachers declares strike (2018-10-31)
• Employment Ministry intervenes to halt strike by Fair Wages staff (2018-10-14)
• We may strike fully next week over single spine snub – Fair wages staff (2018-10-12)
• Government signs MoU to end strikes by 2 bodies (2018-10-04)
• Abossey Okai spare parts dealers to demonstrate against government (2018-10-03)
• Takoradi yoghurt sellers declare strike (2018-10-02)
• Workers of Golden Beach Hotels want CEO out (2018-10-02)
• Tanker drivers call off strike (2018-09-25)
• Tanker drivers strike (2018-09-24)
• Technical university teachers continue strike (2018-09-21)
• Labour migration agencies demonstrate against government ban (2018-09-19)
• Group to demonstrate today over ban on recruitment to Gulf States (2018-09-18)
• TUTAG declares nationwide sit-down strike (2018-09-14)
• Forestry Commission reviews allowances of YEA beneficiaries (2018-09-13)
• Physician Assistants to boycott OPD services from Monday (2018-09-08)
• Nurses, midwives threaten ‘solidarity strike’ on September 10 (2018-09-04)
• GUTA to close shop in protest against CTN policy (2018-08-30)
• GRA postpones implementation of CTN to October 15 (2018-08-30)
• Pay us or we strike – Teachers (2018-08-29)
• Physician assistants to strike in September (2018-08-20)
• Tamale Teaching Hospital workers resume work (2018-08-17)
• Audit Tamale Teaching Hospital, transfer heads – Eminent leaders (2018-08-16)
• Tamale Teaching Hospital safe, resume work - Police to health workers (2018-08-15)
• TTH Chaos: NPP executives in Tamale have refused to cooperate with us - Police (2018-08-15)
• UTAG gives government final warning over book, research allowances (2018-08-08)
• Doctors withdraw plans to strike (2018-08-06)
• Doctors call off planned strike (2018-08-05)
• Doctors strike: Health Minister will act to avoid needless death – PRO (2018-07-30)
• Ghana Medical Association to strike over NHIA levy (2018-07-30)
• Government to meet Ghana Medical Association over strike (2018-07-30)
• Doctors threaten strike (2018-07-29)
• Doctors threaten to strike over outstanding debts (2018-07-28)
• We want our monies, not assurances – UTAG to government (2018-07-27)
• 500 unpaid Naja David Group workers storm director’s home (2018-07-27)
• UTAG threatens to strike next week over unpaid allowance (2018-07-25)
• Agyeman-Manu flouting MoU – Lab scientists (2018-07-17)
• Medical lab scientists threaten strike again (2018-07-17)
• NLC orders striking Aayalolo drivers to return to work (2018-07-04)
• GPHA executives face sanctions (2018-07-03)
• Judges serve strike notice (2018-06-23)
• Akufo-Addo urged to review salaries of lower court judges (2018-06-23)
• Top up our salaries else we’ll strike next month – Judges to Akufo-Addo (2018-06-22)
• Medical laboratory scientists suspend strike (2018-06-02)
• Medical Lab Technicians call off strike (2018-06-02)
• 8000 health workers get financial clearance for jobs (2018-05-31)
• Lab scientists strike taking toll on patients’ pockets (2018-05-31)
• Comment by Minister's advisor trigger walk-out as Lab Scientists' strike enters day four (2018-05-31)
• Government doesn't owe you employment – Agyeman-Manu to jobless Nurses (2018-05-30)
• Striking lab technicians to resume work Wednesday (2018-05-30)
• NLC to hear Laboratory Scientists case on June 1 (2018-05-30)
• GAMLS strike affects public health care in Ashanti Region (2018-05-29)
• Patients stranded as medical lab scientists embark on strike (2018-05-29)
• Our meeting with Health Ministry may not be fruitful – Striking Lab Scientists (2018-05-29)
• Lab scientists’ strike in bad faith – National Labour Commission (2018-05-29)
• Lab technicians strike today (2018-05-28)
• Patients stranded as lab technicians strike (2018-05-28)
• Hospitals cannot run efficiently without Lab Scientists – Ag. Medical Director to gov't (2018-05-28)
• Lab scientists withdraw services; fast and pray for ‘salvation’ (2018-05-27)
• LPG retailers end strike (2018-05-23)
• Deputy Energy Minister chides LPG operators over strike threats (2018-05-22)
• We are not on strike - Goil LPG (2018-05-21)
• Customers struggle for gas as operators strike (2018-05-21)
• LPG operators declare strike over cylinder re-circulation (2018-05-18)
• '6 years cheating is enough' - Lab Technicians begin May 21 countdown to total strike (2018-05-03)
• Textile workers march against piracy (2018-04-28)
• Uber drivers on sitdown strike over 25% commission (2018-04-25)
• Promote us or we strike – Koforidua Technical University lecturers (2018-04-13)
• Government to pay workers per hours worked – Kusi Boafo (2018-04-06)
• Governemnt has paid GHC40m of NAGRAT arrears - Abdul-Hamid (2018-04-06)
• NAGRAT strike action: Needless, malicious disruption (2018-04-06)
• Judges, magistrates strike looms (2018-04-05)
• We won’t call off strike because of ‘promises’ – NAGRAT (2018-04-05)
• Show us 'payment plan' before we call off strike - NAGRAT (2018-04-05)
• We won’t call off strike – NAGRAT to government (2018-04-05)
• GES surprised at NAGRAT’s posture – Oppong Nkrumah (2018-04-05)
• You’ve waited for 4 years, why not wait for 2 more days? – Minister asks striking teachers (2018-04-05)
• National Association of Graduate Teachers declares indefinite strike action (2018-04-04)
• About 1,350 workers to be affected by Goldfields redundancy? (2018-03-17)
• Lower court judges threaten strike again over salaries (2018-03-12)
• Strike to hit Ghana’s mining industry as GMWU meets over Goldfields blues (2018-03-07)
• Koforidua Technical University teachers on strike (2018-03-05)
• Ankaful Hospital: Dordoye hands over to Head of Pharmacy; staff shocked (2018-03-01)
• Striking Ankaful nurses back to work – Health Ministry (2018-02-20)
• Picketing nurses clash with police (2018-02-20)
• '2020 we go show Nana' – Unposted nurses chant (2018-02-20)
• Police accused of attacking unemployed picketing nurses (2018-02-20)
• Government owes us GHC100 million - NAGRAT (2018-02-19)
• Picketing nurses will be posted - Ministry of Health (2018-02-19)
• We are becoming a societal threat – Unemployed Nurses (2018-02-19)
• Ankaful Hospital nurses strike again over director’s conduct (2018-02-15)
• School of Hygiene students demand allowance with demonstration (2017-11-28)
• Ankaful nurses refuse to back down on strike (2017-11-25)
• Hygiene Students to go on demo Nov, 28 (2017-11-25)
• Striking Ankaful nurses reject Director's apology; describe letter as insult (2017-11-24)
• Ankaful Nurses abandon patients; begin sit down strike (2017-11-23)
• Teachers threaten to withdraw services in December (2017-11-20)
• Teachers issue 1-week ultimatum to government (2017-10-18)
• Ghanaian judges threaten strike over allowances (2017-09-25)
• Allied Health Professionals will be posted next week – Health Ministry assures (2017-05-08)
• Ministry of Health to review bonding of nurses (2017-04-25)
• GIMPA lecturers threaten strike over appointments (2016-12-21)
• I am unaware of strike at the Accra Psychiatric hospital – Mahama (2016-11-01)
• Psychiatric nurses begin ‘run from danger’ strike (2016-10-22)
• Psychiatric Nurses threaten indefinite strike (2016-10-21)
• State Attorneys declare strike (2016-10-20)
• Lab scientists hint at fresh strike (2016-10-17)
• Railway workers call off strike (2016-09-25)
• Biomedical lab scientists call off strike (2016-08-30)
• Damongo nurses strike over security concerns (2016-08-17)
• NLC summons CLOSSAG over ongoing strike (2016-08-02)
• Gov't To Meet Striking Teachers Today (2006-10-16)
• President appeals to NAGRAT to call off strike (2006-10-12)
• Govt appeals to striking teachers (2006-10-02)
• Doctors return to work, but .... (2006-06-13)
• Work at Korle-Bu At standstill (2006-04-21)