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General news for Thursday, September 24, 2020
Source: Starr FM
2020-09-24
The nurses called off their three-day strike
The National Labor Commission (NLC) has given the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) and the government a month to resolve the stalemate over the conditions of service for healthcare workers.
According to GRNMA Secretary General David Tenkorang, the NLC at today’s meeting told the parties to report back to them on the status of the negotiations after the four-week period.
“They have given us a month to resolve all outstanding issues and inform them,” he told Starr News.
He added: “No one should take nurses and midwives for granted. Everyone has seen what our anger can cause and we are grateful to Ghanaians for their overwhelming support throughout the strike. Nurses and midwives are respectful but not fearful. When people push us, they see what we are capable of ”.
Strike canceled
The striking nurses and midwives will resume work tomorrow, Thursday, September 24, after their leadership received a court order against their industrial action.
This was announced by the national president of the Ghana Association of Registered Nurses and Midwives Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo at a press conference on Wednesday.
The precautionary measure was presented by the National Labor Commission last Friday after the nurses declared their intention to go on strike, which has been underway since Monday.
Meanwhile, the Nurses and Midwives Association has accused the government of not viewing them as essential service workers.
According to the group, if the government respected them as essential workers, their problems related to improving service conditions would have been addressed in the shortest time possible.
Nurses and midwives across the country went on strike on Monday, September 21, 2020.
The situation has affected the provision of health services in the country, as patients in government-run health centers are neglected, and some doctors and NABCO trainees have to take on roles as nurses.
The Ghana Health Service has called on striking nurses to cancel their strike and return to work to help in the fight against COVID-19.
But speaking to Francis Abban on the Joseph Krampah group’s Morning Starr Wednesday PRO, he said the government has taken an entrenched position and was unwilling to compromise.
He said “if you respect us as providers of essential services, then you don’t take a position rooted in the fact that if you are sitting at the table to negotiate, the law asked you not to strike, and then we take that position and you call us and we come back. all the time. We have suffered many governments so far. It’s time to talk ”.
He continued “when you are negotiating with someone, it is not that what you are going to present is what should be agreed. But if your employer takes a stance like they don’t want to compromise on some of the things we’ve presented, it means they are not being fair to us and they are not treating us as essential workers. “
“If the government sees us as providers of essential services, if there is a deadlock, they must resolve it in the shortest possible time.”
He added that “we say that the employer does not consider or respect us as providers of essential services. Because why should five years pass before it is addressed? We have been silent for some time and it is time to speak. Our return to office depends on what happens with the Labor Commission ”.
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