This was encouraged by some members of the Government of Ghana, who disliked general secretary Victor Christian Aggrey Fynn, as he had recently led a successful strike.
A new conference was held in 1958, bringing together FGCUT with the former NUT members, and a newly founded association of university and college workers.
This formed the Union of Teachers and Educational Institution Workers, a new TUC affiliate, which operated alongside the GUT and largely supplanted it.
[1] Workers who earned more than £680 per year were not eligible for TUC membership, and this substantial minority of teachers received fewer benefits from the unions, many avoiding joining.
Other teachers felt that the unions were too closely linked with the Convention People's Party.