{"id":232936,"date":"2016-07-21T10:04:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232936"},"modified":"2016-07-21T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T10:04:07","slug":"clogsag-strike-threat-govt-urges-restraint-from-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=232936","title":{"rendered":"CLOGSAG strike threat: Gov’t urges restraint from union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government has urged members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), to exercise restraint as it works to resolve their grievances.<\/p>\n

CLOGSAG yesterday [Wednesday], served notice of a nationwide strike<\/a><\/span><\/strong> on July 27, following government’s\u00a0failure to pay them their market premium.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”TZJ1ND8d9YIPvZXYkVOJYhBwLtJnMBZS”]The Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has thus called for calm, assuring CLOGSAG that government was doing its best meet its concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me assure you that government is doing everything to maintain the serenity of the industrial atmosphere in the country and to maintain industrial peace and harmony even whilst we address the concerns of the two major categories of workers in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Iddrisu\u00a0further noted that, CLOGSAG has petitioned his Ministry and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission and the \u201cmatter has been referred to the Grievances Committee of the board of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe subcommittee which is looking at market premiums relative to all categories of workers in the country will engage CLOGSAG in the course of this week, and submit a report to me for onward submission for government\u2019s considerations,\u201d the Minister\u00a0stated.<\/p>\n

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Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG, Dr. Isaac Bampoe Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The union has said it will fully carry out it threats of a nationwide strike if government does not pay their market premiums by July 27.<\/p>\n

CLOGSAG earlier protested <\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>government\u2019s payment of interim premiums to other category of workers, especially when it failed to\u00a0extend the payments to its members.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government has urged members of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), to exercise restraint as it works to resolve their grievances. CLOGSAG yesterday [Wednesday], served notice of a nationwide strike on July 27, following government’s\u00a0failure to pay them their market premium. [contextly_sidebar id=”TZJ1ND8d9YIPvZXYkVOJYhBwLtJnMBZS”]The Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":213566,"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-232936","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\/232936","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=232936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}