CLOGSAG warns those misinforming its members to stop the practice

Accra, March 27, GNA - The National Executive Committee of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), said members were being misinformed on the intent and purposes of the change of management.

It has therefore called on those involved in the clandestine act to stop the practice adding; 93it is an unfair labour practice to use misinformation and misrepresentation in a membership drive." A statement signed by Mr Isaac Bampoe Addo, Executive Secretary of CLOGSAG said an administrative exercise saw a change in management from the Office of the Head of Civil Service to the Local Government Service.

"we wish to state that one's membership to a particular Union or Association is not affected by the administrative exercise we are witnessing now and that cannot make a worker an automatic member of any particular union or association"

The statement said: 93Freedom of Association is guaranteed in both the 1992 Constitution and the Labour Act, 2003, (Act 651)". It said CLOGSAG members were one and the same officers working in both Central and Local Government settings. It therefore assured its members in the Local Government Service that it would continue to protect them from any form of unfair labour practice.