More than 65,000 civil servants across the country are set to withdraw their services in the next 14 days.
According to the Executive Secretary of Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG), Isaac Bampoe Addo, government has failed to implement their revised conditions of service and a new salary structure.
The threat follows government’s failure to implement a new conditions of service agreement and salary structure signed with CLOGSAG last year.
Both parties had agreed that the implementation would begin in January 2025, but the commitment remains unfulfilled despite five separate meetings with the Ministry of Labour.
Tensions are now rising among over 65,000 civil servants nationwide.
“Now we have a situation even media people are calling us asking CLOGSAG executives what are you doing about the MOU you signed with government? When is it going to be implemented?”
” Let me repeat, we are not negotiating, we are only justifying why our conditions of service should be implemented,” he stressed.
Dr Isaac Bampoe Addo insists the government has run out of time and that CLOGSAG members will begin their industrial action in two weeks.
This development comes on the heels of a nationwide strike by nurses and midwives last week, where 128,000 health workers withdrew their services.
That strike was only suspended after parliamentary intervention, but government is still struggling to meet their financial demands.
CLOGSAG, however, says it is unmoved by government’s financial challenges.
“There has not been any labour issues in the country where government has ever had funds, in the budget you have emolument, even if is not in the budget, in the financial regulation we have what we called supplementary budget,” he said.
In a related development, CLOGSAG has ordered its 3,000 members at the Births and Deaths Registry to stay at home starting Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
The directive follows claims of verbal abuse allegedly directed at staff by the Registrar, Samuel Adom Botchway.
“Here is the man threatening the staff that he is a lion, we all know what a lion looks like, victimising people. You see these politicians, they are worrying us, they must be where they belong to, this is a civilised structured civil service, we are telling government that until that is removed our people are staying at home,” he declared.
CLOGSAG says it will not tolerate what it describes as a toxic working environment and is calling for swift action.
