The Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) has declared an indefinite nationwide strike effective Wednesday, November 12, 2019.
The group says the action is a result of the government’s failure to review the salaries of its members.
The Association contends that the Judicial Council has also failed to release the report on their negotiations for onward approval by the President.
Addressing a news conference, the president of JUSAG, Alex Nattey charged all his members, except the security personnel not to show up at work tomorrow
JUSAG had served notice it will lay down its tools until further notice on November 13, 2019, if salaries of its members are not reviewed.
Even before that, the National Executive Council of JUSAG had asked Judicial Service Staff to put on red-arm bands and hoist red flags in the various courts to have their demands addressed.
On 1st October 2019, the Judicial Council mandated to review their salaries and other salary-related matters under the 1992, constitution, set up a committee and considered the proposals of the Association.
At the meeting, it resolved that decisions of the meeting will be forwarded to the President for approval and same captured in the National Budget for the year 2020.
But the association said it had however come to its attention that the Ministry of Finance had rather slated their salary review for the year 2020 and for implementation in the year 2021.
JUSAG has since 2015 been embarking on a series of strike to press home demands for better conditions of service for its members.
The recent one was a 10-day strike which was called off by the association on June 1, 2016.
The strike was embarked on due to the government’s failure to consolidate salaries and allowances of members as approved by the Judicial Council in 2012.
The Association declared a nationwide strike which was supposed to begin on April 1, 2016, but called it off after receiving assurances from the government that the process for the consolidation of salaries and allowances of its members would start on Monday, April 4, 2016.
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