Over 2,500 hospital workers of the 37 Military Hospital of the Ghana Armed Forces are beside themselves with rage and anger over what they describe as �unfair treatment!
According to sources close to the Hospital, �there are uneasiness and disaffection among the hospital workers and is getting to a boiling point these must be addressed with immediate effect.�Some of the workers, whom the Searchlight spoke with, confided in the reporters that the disaffection was due to failure by Hospital authorities to address their concerns with regard to a 10 per cent increment they were promised this year but which had �not been honoured by management.�
They claim that after 7 per cent arrears of last year was paid in November this year; management had promised the over 2,500 staff a 10 per cent increment which was to take retrospective effect, that is, from January to November this year.�What this means is that we�re going to get (7%+10%=17%) starting from January to October,� a dejected worker told the Daily searchlight.
They explained that to their utter dismay what the authorities did was to pay only last year�s arrears of 7% and the 10% increment for the month of November, leaving out the rest of the months � from January to October.According to them, they �felt cheated� because they were made to believe that management would add the 10% increment to the 7% arrears and pay all at a go.
�We�re annoyed because no one is telling us anything which means that their action is deliberate,� another worker said. The dissatisfied and angry workers claim that what some of them receive at the end of the month �is nothing to write home about.� �A Warrant Officer who is a nurse received GH�1200 and a Lt. Col. receives GH�500 a month; and as I speak with you, my brother, our salary, which normally is paid every 10th December, has not even been paid yet,� a worker told The Searchlight.
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