WE WE ARE BATTLING; PAD US - PUBLIC SECTOR WORKER

July 10, 2022
3 years ago

We  We are battling; pad us - Public Sector Workers to government

The Public Sector Workers Union (PSWU) is begging the public authority to regard to calls for help in the midst of the ongoing financial emergency in Ghana.

 

Talking on the Probe on JoyNews on Sunday, the General Secretary of PSWU, Bernard Adjei, noticed that laborers are attempting to cook for themselves, subsequently, their interest for a cost for many everyday items stipend.

 

"We accept that we can continuously assemble ourselves and honor the interest of laborers since things continue to deteriorate constantly. How long could laborers at any point endure this? All we are asking just is that pad laborers, things are hard, if not, we don't have the foggiest idea how we will make due," he said.

 

Mr Adjei noticed that public area laborers and different associations had sounded cautions preceding setting out on their strike activity.

 

"Not a solitary one of us believed it should arrive at this point. I accept we began requiring this some time back. On May Day it came up, trailed by a letter, our partners, the educator associations then followed it up with a final proposal, nothing was finished until the strike started, it's somewhat sad," he expressed.

 

His remark comes after some coordinated worker's organizations started requesting the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) in the midst of the financial difficulty that has hauled the country to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

 

As of now, instructor associations have pronounced an "endless strike" over the public authority's inability to pay the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) they requested.

 

Likewise, the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and the Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives Ghana (UPNMG) are setting comparable expectations.

 

More than 27,000 public area laborers are additionally liable to take to the streets. This was after the specialists said they can never again bear the weight brought onto them by the predominant monetary difficulty in the country.

 

The staff of around 69 public area foundations have in this way chosen to put to cast a ballot a movement on the decision about whether to set out their devices because of the circumstance.

 

In the interim, Mr Adjei noticed that it is time enough government paid public area laborers the compensation.