Graduate teachers in Ghana have served notice of a strike on Thursday as they agitate over unpaid allowances due them Ghnewsnow can confirm They argue that government has consistently demonstrated bad faith in addressing their grievances hence the need for industrial action to back their case. The National Association of Graduate Teachers and the Coalition […]
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful professional associations Ghana has ever known. Unmatched in its lack of tolerance for government’s halfhearted posturing towards workers’ demands for fair wages, and brutal in the ways and means they force the hands of the state to pay them their due. It has
Negotiations for conditions of service for public-sector doctors and other health professionals are expected to resume at the Ministry of Finance today. Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, and the President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Kwabena Opoku-Adusei, confirmed the resumption of negotiations in separate interviews with the Daily Graphic yesterday.
The Ghana Medical Association, GMA, has announced a suspension of its three-week old strike which sought to demand improved and well-documented conditions of service for doctors. A statement issued by the association said the National Executive Council, NEC, considered the appeals from members of general public, the clergy, and the National Council of Chiefs, influential
Some public sector doctors in Ghana’s capital, Accra, have resumed work and are attending to patients in clear defiance of the ongoing strike by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA).
The National Labor Commission, NLC, has instructed the Ghana Medical Association, GMA, to immediately call of its three week-old strike. The commission in a communique issued after talks with all the parties involved in the impasse, asked the GMA and the government to resume negotiations immediately and report back to it on Monday August 24.
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has asked its members to stay resolute in the face of “threats and intimidations” from government.
The government of Ghana has expressed gratitude to its Cuban counterpart for the offer of some 177 medical practitioners from the Caribbean nation to the West African country.
Government has pulled out of conditions of service negotiations with striking members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA). According to government, it cannot negotiate with the doctors while they are on strike. The GMA last month called the strike demanding that government puts in place conditions of service for its members. The two parties have
It was a few years ago at the then Central Regional (now Cape Coast Teaching) Hospital. We were grossly understaffed those years. There was no opening or closing time. You worked as long as there were cases, day or night. I remember often being called two to three times in a single night to perform
