After less than 12 working hours of strike, the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG), has called off the action following assurances from government to tackle their concerns.<\/p>\n
This comes after the national executives of JUSSAG, earlier on Friday, met with the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, to review the strike over poor salaries and unpaid allowances.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”SIs7p3B4CUOoS7J0PJacU7liHZBHY7li”]The meeting, according to Citi News<\/strong> sources, followed another on\u00a0held on\u00a0Thursday with the Labour Minister, Haruna Iddrisu.<\/p>\n JUSSAG embarked on the industrial action citing\u00a0government\u2019s failure to implement a new salary structure\u00a0approved by the Judicial Council many months ago.<\/p>\n But speaking on Citi Eyewitness News<\/strong>, Alex Nartey, confirmed that his union has called off the strike after reaching a deal with government to meet up again on Monday, April 4, to build further consensus.<\/p>\n \u201cI can confirm that we have reached a deal with government and we have shown commitment to each other and that Monday we are going to have fruitful engagement on the way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n No need remaining on strike after\u00a0<\/strong>assurances<\/b><\/p>\n JUSSAG says there is no point remaining on strike following\u00a0government\u2019s\u00a0assurances and the subsequent meeting scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing our meeting with the Labour Minister and the commitment government has shown to us and the fact that the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana is not just interested in strikes, we have called off the industrial action and we are restoring our rank and file to post on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPrior to the declaration of the strike, all attempts to get government for the way forward had proved futile so if government after our declaration has\u00a0shown commitment and we have agreed on a specific day to meet, then it serves no purpose for us to remain on strike,\u201d Mr. Nartey explained further.<\/p>\n Mr. Nartey stressed\u00a0that members of his union are not opposed to going back to work because they are hopeful government will fulfill their end of the bargain.<\/p>\n \u201cMy people are not opposed to us going back to work. They were only expecting government to engage us for closure to the agitations and so they are with us; and they are hopeful that government will walk the talk and fulfill its part of the engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citfmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After less than 12 working hours of strike, the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSSAG), has called off the action following assurances from government to tackle their concerns. This comes after the national executives of JUSSAG, earlier on Friday, met with the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, to review the strike over poor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":203613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}