Thousands of civil servants will embark on a nationwide strike from January 20, 2022, if their demands are not met, ramping up a growing trend of strikes by worker unions since the start of the year.
Already, at least three labour unions have embarked on industrial action and called it off since 2022 began.
Currently, over 20,000-strong University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) are on strike while negotiations over conditions of service with the Employer, the government, are ongoing.
In line with this worrying trend of strikes, the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG) has become the latest to issue a notice of an intended nationwide strike from 20 January 2022 – also citing poor conditions of service for the intended action.
According to CLOGSAG, its unique conditions of service is borne out of the fact that Article 94(3)(b) of the 1992 Constitution bars civil servants from participating in active political activities.
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“It is important to note that the institutions whose members are restrained from participating in partisan politics have distinct and enhanced salary structures and other conditions of service.
“This our request is fair and genuine,” CLOGSAG said in a statement that has been published in full below.
The association said it finds the undue delay in finalising negotiations on the conditions of service for its members worrying and unacceptable.
CLOGSAG said its leaders can no longer hold off the pressure being brought on them by the members to declare a strike, which, according to them, is long overdue.
At the start of this year, a popular prophet prophecised that the country would be hit with incessant strikes and called on the government to be proactive.
