We’re ready to call off strike if govt pays allowances – PSWU

The National Chairman of the Public Services Workers’ Union (PSWU), Ken Tweneboah Koduah, has assured that the union will willingly call off its strike if the government settles all outstanding allowances.

The union declared a strike on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, following what they described as protracted delays and broken assurances from the Ministry of Finance regarding the payment of their Operational Support Allowance.

The ongoing strike has affected operations at regional, district, and premium centres of the National Identification Authority (NIA), leaving many of them deserted and halting all NIA-related services across the country.

According to PSWU, the allowance in question, described by the Union as the only financial supplement to the NIA staff’s “meagre basic pay,” has not been paid since January 2025, despite prior agreements.

However, Mr. Koduah, in an interview, noted that the strike will be suspended once the government shows commitment by rectifying the issue and providing a clear payment timeline.

“Their allowance must be restored. The government must give direction. If he is not ready to restore today, when does he intend to restore it? If the government is talking about budget constraint, the mid-year review is just a few months away, the government must show commitment because what has happened is an error, and the poor worker should not suffer for the error,” he said in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Citi News.