The University of Cape Coast has held a three-day University Management and Unions

Consultative Retreat with a purpose to create an avenue to build a continual and harmonious

relationship between Management and the Unions for the well-being of the University.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, who chaired the meeting in his opening

remarks, expressed gratitude to the delegates present at the retreat for their hard work and

support to the growth and development of the University. Prof. Boampong urged all members

and staff to continue to contribute their quota to enable the University to realize its mission and

vision. He said, “At the end of this program, we should have taken decisions that will advance

our University.”

Some issues discussed during the retreat centered on Salaries, Welfare Fund, Union Healthcare

Contributions/Union Support for the UCC Hospital, and the University of Cape Coast Staff

Provident Fund (UCCSPF).

The UTAG President, Dr. Bert Boadi-Kusi on behalf of the unions present, expressed gratitude

to University Management for convening the meeting and hoped that there would be continual

unity as the Unions and University Management work together to improve working conditions in

the University.

Also present at the retreat was the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh, Provosts of

Colleges, Heads of Directorates, and Representatives of University Teachers Association

of Ghana (UTAG-UCC), Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA-UCC), Senior

Staff Association of Universities of Ghana (SSAUoG-UCC), and the Teachers and Educational

Workers' Union (TEWU-UCC).