Labour Consultant, Austin Gamey, has advised doctors to humble themselves, yield to good corporate practices and stop threatening their employer because the labour act enjoins them to negotiate in good faith. Clear guidelines, according to him, have been set in the Labour Act to help aggrieved employees channel their concerns in the most civil manner. Doctors have been on strike since last Friday to protest delays in their migration onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS). They have so far refused to heed calls, including one from President John Mills, to return to work. Members of the Ghana National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) have also threatened to lay down their tools by Monday if government fails to pay some arrears due them. But speaking on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem Thursday, Mr Austin Gameh bemoaned the practice whereby workers resort to industrial action as a tool to demand their due, saying: “You don’t destroy the place where you are working and return there and say I’m back; this is 17th century attitude, we are in 21st century, we should stop this kind of thing.” The Labour Consultant asserted that there was no need for labour unions to blow hot and cold since criteria have already been set on how to resolve labour-management relations issues. He urged the Fair wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) and the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to stay focused and settle their differences based on guidelines in the Labour Act. He also criticised what he said were attempts by some doctors to undermine the integrity of people who have been trained to manage tensions between labour and employers. “We are too big in our shoes in Ghana here not to yield to people who understand these processes to guide us, and we are attacking their personalities and making them look as if you know better than everybody... “People should learn to humble themselves … I cannot prescribe medicines or give injection to anybody because I am not a qualified doctor…Somebody too has been trained in another profession. “If you are a medical officer and you have a problem of industrial relations and how to resolve differences, you must know where to go. Don’t pretend that you know it better than those who have been trained in that field,” he counseled. “Nobody is bigger than God,” Mr Gamey continued, advising that “All of us must allow ourselves to be used in a way that will benefit this country.”