ACCRA, July 13 (Xinhua) — The Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) has ended its nine-day strike after the government agreed to resolve the salary dispute, CLOGSAG announced in a communique late Friday.
Isaac Bampoe Addo, the executive secretary of CLOGSAG, said in a statement that the decision came after the Ghanaian government gave a strong indication to see the end of the impasse by January next year.
“The government acknowledged and committed itself to the memorandum of understanding signed on January 19, 2022, and gave an assurance that the process for finalizing the salary structure would be completed by Oct. 31 and implemented with effect from Jan. 1 next year. In this regard, the association has agreed to call off its strike,” said the statement.
The civil and local government workers declared an indefinite strike on July 3 over the government’s failure to implement a new salary structure for its 45,000 members.
The strike resulted in disruptions in the provision of services among the various ministries, departments, agencies of government, and local government authorities.
The cocoa, gold, and oil-producing West African country has faced a severe economic crisis in recent years, prompting the government to request a loan of 3 billion U.S. dollars from the International Monetary Fund over a year ago.
The country has so far received 1.56 billion dollars out of the loan to support its economic reforms.
