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The Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has notified the government that its members will withdraw their services from Thursday 1 October 2020 if their poor conditions of service are not improved.
According to them, their meager salary, as well as the allowances they are given, have left them forever assigned to hardships.
The group said the industrial action was also due to the failure of its employer, the Health Ministry, to “resolve our long-standing but can be resolved complaints.”
This was contained in a statement signed by MOWAG Secretary General Bernard Kofi Jordan in Accra.
“By this notice, all mortuary workers in public health institutions: Ghana Health Service, CHAG, Teaching Hospitals, University Hospitals and other quasi-health institutions are obliged to leave their tools on October 1 until further notice,” he said. .
They have complained about how they have had to work in intolerable conditions, including constantly inhaling dangerous and carcinogenic chemicals like formaldehyde, among others.
Therefore, they have warned that due to the inability of the government to address their concerns under article 159 of the Labor Law (Law 651), their strike will be in full force until their demands are fully met.
Below are some of the concerns raised by the group.
1. Unresolved issues of salaries, assignments, placements and promotions (terms of service).
2. 50% bonus promised by the President to motivate frontline health workers, but denied to morgue workers without explanation, even after petitioning His Excellency the President.
3. Mechanization and employment of mortuary workers as agreed long ago between the Ministry of Health and MOWAG.
4. Failure to provide adequate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to ensure safety against the pandemic and other diseases faced daily in morgues despite all government guarantees.
5. Victimization / intimidation of some members of the MOWAG by some institutional heads against the spirit of the Labor Law of 2003 (Law 651).
6. Rejection / failure by the Department of Labor to respect and obey the directive of the National Labor Commission after the Commission ordered, more than a year ago, that it does not support or condone the illegality as in the case of illegal withdrawal of the MOWAG Collective Bargaining Certificate (CBC) and commissioned the Department to restore it.
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