CLOGSAG members sneak back to work

Accra, Aug. 11, GNA - Some members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), are back to work despite the industrial action embarked upon by the Association.

The National Labour Commission has described the two-week old strike as illegal because CLOGSAG did not inform the Commission before embarking on the strike.

Mr Haruna Iddrisu, the Employment Minister also at a meeting with CLOGSAG asked members to return to work or forfeit their August salaries.

A survey by Ghana News Agency showed that civil servants at the Controller and Accountants General Department; Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Authority were at post.

Other institutions visited were Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Ministry of Water Resource Works and Housing, Ministry Of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Communication, the Registrar Generals Department and Department of Urban Roads.

In an interview with some workers who want to remain anonymous said they were not ready to forfeit their salaries.

However in defiance the National Secretariat of CLOGSAG have indicated that members would only return to work when government signs a memorandum of understanding indicating when it would pay the interim premium.

However government says it would not be able to pay for the interim premium this year since it did not budget for it, this year.

GNA