By P.K.Yankey, GNA
Nkroful (W/R), March 13, GNA – The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) branch in the Ellembelle District has joined the nation -wide industrial action to press home their demands for enhanced salary structure and improved conditions of service.
Clients who visited the offices of the District Assembly, had to return home without any services rendered to them as staff members had joined the on-going strike action and had not been at post.
When the Ghana News Agency (GNA) visited the offices of the Ellembelle District Assembly on day five of the strike, the offices remained closed, the place looked like a “cemetery” without a single soul.
Speaking to the GNA in an interview, Mr Joseph Kwame Tawiah, the Western Regional Secretary of CLOGSAG, said the two major demands of enhanced salary structure and condition of service to CLOGSAG, have been pending since 2019 in the then President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo regime.
As to whether CLOGSAG had gone to the negotiating table and exhausted all the channels of communication with the government before embarking on the strike, Mr Tawiah said: ” Ou demands were part of the transition team which we worked on through the transition before the current government assumed office.”
He said: “After it was captured by the transition team, the Minister of Labour, Jobs and Employment , Dr Rashid-Abdul Hassan Pelpuo confirmed during his vetting before the Appointment’s Committee in Parliament that the moment he assumed office, he would ensure that the needs of CLOGSAG were addressed.”
Mr Tawiah said the Association and the government had signed two Memorandum of Understanding ( MoUs) so it was waiting for the government to do the implementation.
“Until our grievances are met, the industrial action continues unabated, and we’ll not go to work,” Mr Tawiah said.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/Benjamin Mensah