News:
November 12, 2013
Staff of Parliament are threatening series of demonstrations to demand improved salaries and service conditions.
The eminent protest could affect parliamentary activities including the presentation of the 2014 budget and government financial policy that had been scheduled for next week Tuesday.
Chairman of Parliament Workers’ Union, Maxwell Tetteh, said the agitation was borne out of the poor working conditions that members of the union have been experiencing.
According to him, their salaries have not been reviewed since April 2005.
He said the workers union has written formally to management about their concerns and has given them up to the end of the month to react to the issues raised.
“We will be working but everyone will put on red armbands; coming events casts their shadows”, Mr. Tetteh told JoyNews.
The Union chairman further indicated that even after the introduction of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS), their condition of service is nothing to write home about.
“Parliament is an institution and we are all public sector workers and so if after more than three years of [the implementation] of Single Spine Salary and we are still marking time, how do you expect us to cope”, he quizzed.
Mr. Tetteh said members of the Union will embark on series of agitations to press home their demands since “management has turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to it without seeing to it that the important thing is done”.
Meanwhile, the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Ajaho will be meeting the workers tomorrow to resolve the issue amicably.
Myjoyonline.com