Isaac Bampoe-Addo declaring the strike last week
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday, July 28, 2016
The
Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has intensified its strike action that began yesterday.
Members of the association insist that if
the government,
through the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), does not include their
inputs in the payment of premium to qualified personnel in the services, they
would not return to work.
In Accra, CLOGSAG executives were said to
have met the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Haruna Iddrisu, but the
meeting ended in a deadlock.
A source told DAILY GUIDE that the
ministry was going to have subsequent meetings with the leadership of the
association.
Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Isaac
Bampoe-Addo, at a news conference last week, accused government of refusing to
include them in the process to determine the Interim Premium and ordered its
members to stay at home if it failed to address their grievances by the
assigned date.
“The national secretariat of CLOGSAG wishes
to state that negotiations with government on Interim Premium have not been
conclusive and because of that all our members are supposed to be on strike.”
According to the association, it sighted a
draft report of the presentation of a sub-Committee of the FWSC on the ‘Transition
from Interim Market Premium to implementing Market Premium but they were not
included even though the committee had made some findings in relation to
CLOGSAG.
Dr. Bampoe Addo said that the committee had made a compelling statement to
the effect that in
determining the skills that qualify for Market Premium, it had focused on “the
health and education sectors as these formed the priority areas of government.
“To say the least, this statement is provoking and improper as regards the
Civil and Local Government Services.
Based on current expertise at the FWSC, CLOGSAG is of the view that the
output of this Committee would be misleading, unprofessional and above all
mischievous.”
He said a critical look at the purported presentation “would justify such
an assertion,” adding “CLOGSAG is of the opinion that a more competent,
responsible and efficient team should be put in place to undertake this task.”
In
Tamale on Monday, the National 3rd Trustee of
CLOGSAG, Ernest Tagoe, reportedly said at a news conference that they had directed
all members in the Northern Region to embark on the industrial action.
In Sunyani, a top official of
the assembly told the paper that only skeletal staff of the Sunyani Municipal
Assembly reported for work yesterday even though CLOGSAG directed its members
to embark on a full strike by July 27, this year.
This was after negotiations
with government failed to produce positive results on 19th July.
He said because some workers also
belonged to other sister unions like Local Government Workers Union, its
members probably would report to work.
Checks from other assembly assemblies
in the region indicated the same trend.
At Dormaa East Assembly, all heads of
department reported to work while their subordinates were absent.
Caption: Isaac Bampoe-Addo (middle) declaring
the strike last week
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