Lecturers at The Gambia College are firm with their decision of not to report to class, if all their demands are not met. The Lecturers demands include a fifty percent salary increment and no more delay in the payment of their salaries. This is the second sit-down strike the academic staff embarked on in just seven months; the first was September 2018 on the same matter.
Following a meeting held by the general membership of the College Academic Staff Association (GCASA) on the 9th May, 2019, the GCASA Executive wrote to inform the authorities that the general membership agreed to resume their sit-down strike with immediate effect, until the following conditions are met:
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