GOVT COMMITTED TO SINGLE SPINE SALARY STRUCTURE (PAGE 16)

THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmud Khalid, has given the assurance that the government is committed to the implementation of the single spine salary structure (SSSS).
To this end, he said, a high level stakeholders consultative forum would soon be held to provide the platform for participants to iron out all grievances pertaining to the pay structure.
The regional minister, therefore, called on the leadership of organised labour to educate its members on the contents of the SSSS in order to do away with any form of industrial unrest which could emanate from its implementation.
Mr Khalid was addressing a durbar to climax the golden jubilee celebration of the Public Services Workers Union (PSWU) of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Wa.
“Be assured that the government is not unaware that salaries and wages are generally low in the country. It is, therefore, doing all that is feasible and sustainable to address the situation,” Mr Khalid stressed.
He reminded workers in particular and Ghanaians in general to work extra hard wherever they found themselves as they came to terms with the global economic recession.
The Regional Industrial Relations Officer, Mr William Adii, for his part, paid glowing tribute to the founding fathers of the union and gave the assurance that they would work to improve the fortunes of the PSWU.
He catalogued some of the achievements of the PSWU over the years, including the training of personnel, both locally and overseas, and urged the female members of the union to strive to participate in trade union activities.
Mr Adii further called for unity among members of the union, saying “the union would achieve greatness only by the enlightenment and the involvement of the rank and file”.
Commenting on the nature of roads in and around the region, Mr Adii stated that bad roads linking the Upper West to the Northern and the Upper East regions made it difficult for workers to travel to adjoining regions.
He, therefore, appealed to the government to give the construction of those roads urgent attention before the rains set in.