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An emergency meeting purposed to convince striking health workers in the Greater Accra region to rescind their decision ended up in chaos.The workers laid down their tools last week to compel government to correct what they termed “disparity in salary.”The Ministry of Health has directed that all health workers who were not at post as from March 6, 2007 should consider themselves dismissed.Joy News reporter, Alex Kwabena Mensah, reports from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital that the meeting has failed to achieve its results. He said the workers are determined to carry on their strike in spite of the consequences.He stated that though the leadership of the workers has explained that they are still negotiating with the National Labour Commission, the Ministry of Health and the Appellate Body to review their salary structure, the workers are not budged.Mensah said the leadership accepted responsibility for not conveying to the workers about the latest development and appealed to them to reverse their decision.“We are not going to work because we feel cheated and victimized. The salaries they announced on air are not reflecting on our pay slips. So we won’t go,” said one of the irate striking workers.At the time of filing this story, the President of the National Health Workers Union, Mr Raymond Tetteh, said the leadership has resolved to give the striking workers the chance to decide how best the issues could be solved.“We are waiting somewhere else for them to conclude their discussion. We hope at the end of the day reason will prevail,” he disclosed.Meanwhile, the workers have called on the Ministry of Health to withdraw its decision to dismiss them while negotiation goes on.
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