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The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has said that although the court has ordered them to return to work, the question of whether actual work will be performed at the facility is up for debate.
This comes after an Accra High Court, for the second time, ordered the Association through a substitute service to halt its ongoing strike.
Despite the fact that the National Labor Commission (NLC) obtained an initial interlocutory court order on Friday to force the GRNMA to suspend its industrial action, the nurses proceeded to carry out a national withdrawal of their services, explaining that they did not receive a copy of said court order.
Subsequently, the NLC has obtained another request in support of the ex-exparte motion for a substituted service order, so the nurses are expected to stop the strike action with immediate effect.
However, in response to this, the General Secretary of the Association, David Tenkorang-Twum, in an interview on Joy FM News On Tuesday he accused the NLC of hiding behind the law to intimidate nurses and midwives.
This, he argued, is unacceptable since associations are authorized by the constitution to carry out industrial action when they feel disgusted.
Then he added: “What they don’t know is that they can [use the law] to force us to go to work, but they cannot force us to work. “
“And we [the GRNMA] it will execute all the other options open to the Union ”, he stressed.
Commenting on whether or not the Association will abide by the court order, Mr. Tenkorang-Twum said that since the Association’s management did not declare a strike, several Councils should be consulted before making a decision.
