The Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) in the Northern Region has asked members to wear red bands and fly red flags in protest of alleged delayed implementation of the new salary structure and other conditions of service.
“Meanwhile, we have directed all members of CLOGSAG in the Region to start wearing red bands and fly red flags at all CLOGSAG offices as we standby for your response in due course,” a statement signed by Naba Alhaji Apam Nuhu, the Regional Secretary of CLOGSAG, said in a letter to CLOGSAG Headquarters.
It said the Regional Executive Council (REC) held an emergency meeting on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at the Regional Secretariat to discuss the undue delay in the implementation of the new salary structure and other conditions of service.
The statement said the Council members recalled vividly a letter dated January 24, 2022, which said: “We wish to inform you that our main demand included in the 19th January, 2022, Memorandum of understanding (MOU) was a new salary structure for the Civil Service and Local Government Service.
“The parties to the MOU have agreed that the Salary structure shall be finalised by
31st August, 2022, and implemented effective 1st January, 2023. However, if by 31st August, 2022, the salary structure has not been finalised as agreed, CLOGSAG shall continue with the strike.
“The Regional Executive Council (REC) after going through al the above has decided that it is either now or never, enough of the unwarranted and deliberate inaction on the issue we have waited long enough and can no longer bear the frustration and demotivation that characterise this obvious bad faith on the part of Government.”
It said constituents of CLOGSAG deserved better than and called on members to rise up as always and fight for what they deserved and most entitled to.
“It is time tested principle that workers benefits are usually not granted on a silver platter and hence we cannot continue to sit down and expect ours to fall from the sky,” to said, urging the headquarters to declare strike immediately.
GNA
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16 Dec. 2023
