Public Agenda (Accra)
5 September 2008
The Health Services Workers Union (HSWU) of Ghana TUC has called on the government to pay the health workers the salary adjustments awarded all public sector employees since 2006.
The Union further urged the government to urgently enter into negotiations with the leadership of the HSWU to expedite the payment of these increases of 20% and 15% respectively.
These demands were contained in several resolutions adopted at the recent 9th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of the Union held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST) Kumasi.
The delegates therefore urged the government as well as their employers not to use the wrong salaries in computing the retirement benefits of their members as Public Sector Workers who retire on CAP 30 pension, stressing that such computations should be based on the current terminal salaries and not the 2005 levels.
- On the On-going negotiations with their emp1oyers, namely, the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Teaching Hospitals (THs), the conference called for early conclusion at the negotiations before the end of 2008 to ensure industrial peace in the coming year.
The delegates expressed dismay at the foot-dragging attitude of their employers regarding these negotiations and pleaded for urgent attention to complete them.
On the labour-management relations, the delegates called on their employers to use dialogue as a means of consultation and involvement of the Union in all decision-making processes to promote industrial harmony.
The conference called on their employers to establish, as a matter of urgency, industrial relations desks at national, regional and agency levels manned by qualified persons with in-depth knowledge in industrial relations to enhance harmony.
The delegates called on the GHS council and the the Boards to replace all obsolete and malfunctioning equipment at the facility levels to reduce the risk of health workers contracting diseases and other health hazards in the performance of their lawful duties.
On the payment of special incentives to motivate health workers to deprived areas, the delegates deplored the current discriminatory implementation of the scheme and called for it to cover all qualified health workers at those facilities since they all perform team-work to render sound health to the patients.
On the pending 2008 general elections, the delegates called on all well-meaning Ghanaians, especially government and politicians alike to eschew their political differences in order to protect the country's young democracy by organizing a clean and credible Voters' Register, Transparent and fair elections.
Accordingly, the conference also urged the Electoral Commission to live up to its responsibilities by ensuring a credible voters' register as well as providing all the necessary logistics and materials to make the electoral process devoid of questioning.
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