The leadership of the Health Services Workers’ Union (HSWU) has suspended its nationwide strike across the country.
It comes after an emergency council meeting on Friday with the leadership of the union’s professional association.
Addressing the media in Accra on Saturday October 30, 2021 General Secretary of HSWU, Franklin Owusu Ansah, urged members of the union to resume work.
“You have demonstrated that wonderful things can be achieved with unity, teamwork, and collaboration, and they like to say, when spiders unite, they can entangle a lion, and for that matter, we are only as strong as united, and as weak as we are divided. So, the leadership wants to take the opportunity to thank all members for all that you have done”.
“At an emergency NEC meeting, held on Friday in the night with the leadership of Professional Association in the Health Services Workers’ Union, we decided to suspend the industrial action, not because of intimidation, but we have listened to the cry of Ghanaians,” he told the media.
The Health Services Workers’ Union laid down their tools on Tuesday October 26, 2021 because of what it describes as delayed negotiations for better conditions of service for union members.
The union says the many attempts to get the government to address its grievances have proven futile, resulting in the members’ decision to abandon post.
The workers said the decision to embark on a strike springs from the failure on the part of the government and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) to improve their working conditions.
