{"id":238654,"date":"2016-08-13T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238654"},"modified":"2016-08-13T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:00:54","slug":"clogsag-unsure-of-strikes-end-waiting-on-mou-with-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238654","title":{"rendered":"CLOGSAG unsure of strike&#8217;s end, waiting on MOU with Gov&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), is unsure of when it will call off its strike over interim market premiums.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the union appearing receptive of\u00a0President John Mahama\u2019s explanation indicating government\u2019s inability to honour their demands now, but instead in \u00a02017.<\/p>\n<p>The President has thus asked the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations to have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with CLOGSAG.<\/p>\n<p>contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nUGiJOiAA6fAM1Nvs8FzwLNJgyFIM9eN&#8221;]CLOGSAG a fortnight ago <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/01\/no-premiums-no-work-clogsag-to-govt\/\">declared a strike<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to force government to pay its members their interim premium allowances, and had refused to rescind the decision until their demands are met.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Relations Officer of CLOSSAG, Eddie Acquaye, noted to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, that the union will first have to finalise a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Employment Ministry before the termination of the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Acquaye\u00a0explained that the strike was called by the National Executive Council of CLOGSAG which is spread throughout the 10 regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need to do is to perhaps convene an emergency meeting and see how they will come together for us to decide on the strike. The strike can only be called off by the national executive council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, I cannot tell you that the strike will be called off in that particular meeting but the most important thing that we need to do now is to get the minister of employment to get the MOU finalized,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mahama&#8217;s explanation to CLOGSAG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama had implored the striking workers to return to work.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, any attempt to yield to the demands of CLOGSAG \u201cwill throw the budget completely off track, and make nonsense of the sacrifices we have made together over the last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_214380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214380\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/haruna-iddrisu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-214380\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/haruna-iddrisu.jpg\" alt=\"Haruna Iddrisu\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-214380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haruna Iddrisu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prior to the President&#8217;s explanation<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/09\/clogsag-cant-get-premiums-we-didnt-plan-for-it-govt\/\">a meeting<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0organized by the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations on Tuesday aimed at resolving the issue, did not\u00a0appease\u00a0CLOGSAG.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that\u00a0government could not pay the interim premium being demanded by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, (CLOGSAG).<\/p>\n<p>According to him, provision was not made for such payments in the 2016 budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), is unsure of when it will call off its strike over interim market premiums. This is despite the union appearing receptive of\u00a0President John Mahama\u2019s explanation indicating government\u2019s inability to honour their demands now, but instead in \u00a02017. The President has thus asked the Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238389,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238654","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=238654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}