The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC) has completed processes for the migration of workers of the Civil and Local Government Service Association of Ghana (CLOGSAG) onto the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS). A grading structure based on a job evaluation exercise for the estimated 43,000 membership of CLOGSAG undertaken in January, 2011 has been completed and is to be submitted to the Ministry of Finance for the appropriate validation before migration. The completion of the exercise comes at a time of agitation from constituents of CLOGSAG in the Northern Region, who are protesting against delays in their placement on the structure. The Chief Executive Officer of the FWSC, Mr George Smith-Graham, however, says work on the grading structure for the CLOGSAG members has been completed for them to be migrated. He said complaints from constituents of CLOGSAG in the Northern Region were inappropriate because the FWSC had consistently been deliberating with their executives over the new grading structure that was based on the re-evaluation exercise and also added that painstaking work had to be done because CLOGSAG comprised civil servants and local service workers. He said the delays being complained of could be attributed to the various halts in the implementation process from the start due to complaints by CLOGSAG resulting in several facilitation efforts by the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare, the National Labour Commission (NLC) and the law courts. On February 2, 2010, CLOGSAG held its first press conference on what it said were “unresolved problems associated with the implementation of the SSSS,” where it drew public attention to distortions in the grading and levels of its constituents, low step increments within the SSSS and the lack of a policy guideline on the implementation of the new structure. In March, 2010 - a technical committee, comprising the ministry, FWSC and CLOGSAG - was set up to look into the grievances; with representatives of CLOGSAG, the FWSC and the Civil Service Council agreeing to re-evaluate some job classes and grades. Between April and June, CLOGSAG petitioned the National Labour Commission (NLC) about the FWSC's "non-response to their proposals for the 2010 negotiation of salaries, review of allowances and discussion of other issues." On June 17, 2010, before a formal hearing of the case by the NLC, CLOGSAG withdrew the case and sought an application from the courts to directly negotiate with the government on the conditions of service of its members in accordance with its fundamental rights to negotiate separately from the Public Services Joint Standing Negotiating Committee (PSJSNC), a body comprising representatives of all the unions and FWSC for a single round of negotiations for salaries of public service workers to save time and cost. In January, 2011, a job re-evaluation exercise for the 43,000 members of CLOGSAG began based on which the new grading structure has evolved, while in May, 2011, the Accra Fast Track High Court dismissed the application by CLOGSAG to negotiate separately with the government on behalf of its members. Members of CLOGSAG embarked on a sit-down strike in Tamale on Wednesday to press home their demand for the early resolution of the problem impeding the migration of the association onto the SSSS.