went on strike<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, in August 2015, it was over the same\u00a0unresolved issues with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) over\u00a0conversion differences after migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure.<\/p>\nGHOSPA\u2019s General Secretary, Emmanuel Owusu Owiafe, lamented to Citi News<\/strong> that six years of negotiations has yet to bear any fruit hence GHOSPA’s decision to strike.<\/p>\nHe also stated that other pharmacists working for government, but outside the Health Service, were receiving better market premiums.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin the health service, we are having discrepancies in our interim market payment even comparable to our colleague pharmacists in some public sector institutions.\u00a0Pharmacists working in university hospitals are on a premium of 1.14 meanwhile the Fair Wages and salaries Commissions are putting pharmacists working in the Ghana health services at 0.58 and that is a huge discrepancy,\u201d Mr. Owiafe said.<\/p>\n
He further warned that, \u201cWe are very resolute and if things are not concluded for us where there is a clear instruction to the Ministry of Health and the Controller and Accountant General, we will not rescind on this strike.\u201d<\/p>\n
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