Some Members of Parliament have complained about the impact of the prolonged strike by the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOSAG) on government business.
According to the MPs, they can not access their Common Fund due to their inability to process some documents since the Local Government Staff are on strike.
This was made known following a meeting between the Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development and members of CLOGSAG to resolve its industrial action.
The meeting took place on Monday, May 9, 2022, at the East side of the 7th Floor of the Job 600 building at Parliament House.
CLOGSAG has been on strike for over three weeks seeking, among other things, their demands of “Political Neutrality” allowance for it civil service workers.
“Every MP is affected by the strike. There are so many things we are trying to process, but we cannot do them because of the strike. If things go through, I’m sure they will be resolved in no time. Let’s remain positive”, said the Vice Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Suleman Adamu Sanid.
The Vice Chairman of the Committee also said that the committee is looking at engaging the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission to understand what is still holding them and causing some of these things to go on.
He stated that “if the FWSC doesn’t have the necessary legislative tools, we can do that so that these perineal issues of strikes here and there will be a thing of the past.”
Despite the meeting, CLOSAG has maintained that they won’t suspend their strike until their demands have been met.
According to them, the meeting was “an opportunity to tell our side of the story, we have told them our side of the story. They said they will get back to us. Definitely, they will also have to listen to the government side.
