Varied authorities and public places of work throughout the nation have been just about empty yesterday as members of the Civil and Native Authorities Employees Affiliation of Ghana (CLOGSAG) started an indefinite strike.
The Affiliation declared the strike on Tuesday to press house their demand on the federal government to implement the proposed new wage construction accredited by the Truthful Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) after one and a half years since a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was reached.
The economic motion took impact regardless of summons by the Nationwide Labour Fee (NLC) requesting the CLOGSAG management, FWSC, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and different events to a gathering yesterday to deliberate on the difficulty.
In the meantime, the NLC has directed the management of the CLOGSAG to name off the strike though they didn’t honour the Fee’s invitation to the assembly with the opposite stakeholders.
Checks by the Ghanaian Instances point out that members of the general public who had gone to the offices to transact enterprise have been left stranded as there have been no officers to take care of their wants.
Work on the places of work on the Registrar-Normal’s Division the place important providers, together with marriage registration and business renewals, are completed remained closed.
Members of CLOGSAG on the Larger Accra Regional Coordinating Council and the Accra Metropolitan Meeting weren’t omitted of the strike as they stayed house.
The story was the identical at numerous places of work in Kumasi within the Ashanti Area, together with Hire Management Workplace, Kumasi Metropolitan Meeting as they have been shut to prospects.
Briefing the journalists after half-hour look ahead to the CLOGSAG, the Govt Secretary of the FWSC, Ofosu Asamoah, mentioned the strike was unlawful and requested them to renew work.
He mentioned the Fee would invite the CLOGSAG to another assembly on Tuesday in the direction of decision of the matter.
Current on the assembly have been Head of FWSC, Ben Arthur; the Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Festus Awuah Kwofie, the Technical Advisor to the Employment and Labour Minister, Brilliant Wireko-Brobby.
Declaring the strike on Tuesday, the Govt Secretary of CLOGSAG, Isaac Bampoe Addo, mentioned all of its members ought to abide by the directive till the federal government met their calls for.
“Indicating our intentions to proceed on a nationwide strike if the brand new wage construction for the employees of the Civil Service and Local Authorities Service was not carried out, we hereby declare a nationwide strike with impact from Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
“All employees of the Civil Service and Native Authorities Service are to steer clear of work till additional discover. Equally, all CLOGSAG secretarial places of work have to be closed. Kindly take observe and comply accordingly,” he mentioned.