The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG) has declared an indefinite strike over their unpaid allowances.
[contextly_sidebar id=”9MMRfFS67V7Hx78QVNCMAmXHw7DymAKG”]The Executives of JUSSAG last week announced their intention to withdraw their services on May, 20, 2015 following government’s failure to pay their outstanding allowances.
However in April, the Minister of Employment and Labour, Haruna Iddrisu, advised the group to use dialogue to address their conditions of service.
He urged the group to negotiate their conditions of service with the Judicial Council and indicated that, the Ministry of Employment and Labour and the Fair Wages and Salary Commission (FWSC) will be available to give advice.
The Minister, at a meeting held between government and JUSAG regarding the payment of allowance appealed to the latter to suspend their intended strike.
However JUSSAG insisted it will embark on an industrial action until government settles the outstanding arrears owed them.
Addressing the gathering on Tuesday, the President of JUSAG… said “we [JUSSAG] are going home, when government calls us and tells us that it has paid all the allowances due us tomorrow, we will come back to work the following day.”
He further explained that JUSSAG was compelled to take such a decision because they were runnng out of patience.
“We are workers who are full of discipline. We are not being mischeivious, we are not being destructive. The reason why we could wait up till this point is because we were oppressed, we were unhappy and we wanted government to see the urgency of our needs. Therefore from tomorrow, nationwide, no Judicial Staff will go to work….”
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/Kojo Agyeman/citifmonline.com/Ghana