The Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission, Bernice Welbeck, says a meeting with the Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana has been rescheduled to March 18 after the association’s leadership boycotted an earlier engagement with the commission.

The meeting had been called to address the association’s ongoing strike and the concerns raised by its members.

According to Dr Welbeck, the commission could not proceed with discussions because the leadership of the association failed to attend the scheduled meeting and the strike action was still in force.

She added that the commission had already declared the strike illegal and directed the association to immediately suspend the industrial action.

“Because they didn’t appear and they are still on strike, you know, when a party is on strike or has instituted an industrial action, the substantive matter cannot be heard,” she said.

“The first one said it constituted an illegality if they embarked on it. Now, the declaration has been made, which is a kind of ruling, that the action that they’ve taken is illegal. And so we are moving step by step,” she said.