Civil Servants Give Ultimatum To Gov't

Accra The Greater Accra Regional Branch of the Civil Servants' Association of Ghana today gave the government up to end of June to start implementing the Price Waterhouse Report. At a meeting held in Accra, it said if by the deadline, the implementation of the report has not started, the government should increase the salary relief of 20 per cent it decided to offer workers. They said long before the 20 per cent was offered, hard economic conditions had hit workers arising from high inflation, depreciation of the cedi, high transport fares and medical costs, among others. The Association said the 20 per cent is therefore nowhere near the solution of the economic problems confronting workers. Mr Smart Y. A. Chigabatia, Executive Secretary, reiterated his call for a National Salary and Wage policy that would set guidelines for any salary structure in the country. This, he said, would be in the interest of both workers and employers, adding that the association wants to depart from strike actions in demand of better conditions of service. Mr Chigabatia said the Price Waterhouse Report which aims at bringing sanity into salary administration is, to some extent, not different from recommendations by the 1967 Mills Odoi Report, the 1971 Issifu Ali report and the recent Gyampo Committee's report.