Upper West NAGRAT joins call for salary increment, threatens strike

According to the group, their members can no longer cope with the current economic situation in the country, hence the need for the government to grant the 20% increment to help mitigate the rising cost of living in Ghana.

Yaw Baah appealed to the government to grant the 20% cost of living allowance.

Again, on the 7th of June 2022, the Vice President of NAGRAT reiterated their call for the 20% cost of living allowance, saying their members can no longer bear the excruciating economic conditions in the country.

The Upper West Regional Chairman of NAGRAT, Harrun Ussif Kadiri, addressing journalists at a press conference on Friday, June 24, 2022, decried that their members could no longer meet their economic obligations due to the rising cost of fuel and other goods and services.

In the face of all these challenges, labour unions pleaded with the government to cushion the Ghanaian worker by granting the cost of living allowance to help mitigate the mass suffering of the Ghanaian worker but the calls seem to be falling on deaf ears”.

The chairman has thus given the government an ultimatum to grant the 20% cost of living allowance, or they will embark an industrial strike to press home their demands.

We, the Upper West NAGRAT, therefore, demand of our national leadership that if at the end of June 2022 our call for the cost of living allowance is not headed to, we will lay down our tools”.