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Health workers asked to suspend
intended strike action
Accra, Feb. 1, GNA - A health focus pressure group, on
Thursday, appealed to health workers threatening to embark
on strike to demand better conditions of service, to give
the Government appellate body more room to resolve their
grievances.
The Spokesman for "Love Your Neighbour," Mr Eric Osei Annor
told a press conference in Accra that the appellate body has
asked the Government to renew its mandate in order to
resolve the stalemate.
Health workers have threatened to embark on indefinite
strike on Monday, February 6, 2007 if Government failed to
meet their demands.
Mr Annor said grievances over enhanced working conditions
could only be resolved through dialogue and not through
strikes, which always led to needless death of patients.
He said workers in the Health Sector have been given the
privilege to negotiate for better conditions of service
outside the framework of the Ghana Universal Salary
Structure.
Mr Annor said the lives that were lost through previous
industrial actions couldn't be underestimated as it impacted
negatively on the political and socio-economic development
of the country.
"We cannot go on like this," he said.
Mr Annor said the intended industrial action was also ill
time since it was very close to Ghana's Golden Jubilee
celebrations on March 6, 2007.
He said the group would use legal and other legitimate means
to discourage the intended strike action.
"While it is important to champion the cause of the working
masses, it is equally important that the working people care
for the people whose taxes are used to pay them," he said.
GNA
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