NIA Workers Resume Strike
Four months after suspending their short industrial action upon several interventions, the National Identification Authority (NIA) Division of the Public Services Workers Union of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has resumed the strike.
In a letter to the Executive Secretary of the NIA, it said Management’s failure to operationalize the scheme of service had influenced the decision.
It referenced two different communications to the leadership which have all been brushed aside.
“On September 9, 2024, we wrote to your good self, requesting a meeting to discuss, among other things, the road map on the implementation of the scheme of service, but no feedback was received.
“On September 17, 2024, we wrote to the board chairman and copied you demanding urgent redress to among other things, the migration of staff onto the new scheme of service by September 30, 2024. We have since not received any feedback.”
The workers deem the action of the management as a “blatant betrayal of trust and a direct attack on our well-being”.
“After exhaustive patience and repeated demands, we regret to inform you that your unacceptable failure to operationalize the newly approved Scheme of Service (SoS) has compelled us to take this decisive action beginning tomorrow Monday, October 7, 2024. And by extension, all our members will not avail ourselves to work beginning tomorrow until the scheme of service is fully operationalized.”
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
