The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has challenged political parties to come up with strategies to address unemployment, instead of mere electioneering promises to tackle the problem. The Chairman of the TUC, Reverend Richard K .Yeboah, said, “Unemployment is a problem that is well recognised across the political divide but it has received scanty attention … Read more
The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has challenged political parties to come up with strategies to address unemployment, instead of mere electioneering promises to tackle the problem. The Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has challenged political parties to come up with strategies to address unemployment, instead of mere electioneering promises to tackle the problem. A … Read more
President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated government’s commitment not to yield to pressures from agitating labour unions for an increment in their salaries and allowances. The President says compromising on government’s stance will negatively affect their country’s budget. Speaking at an Africa-U. S business forum in New York on Wednesday, the President noted that, most … Read more
The Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), has said it will not give in to demands from labour unions ahead of the impending elections. With less than three months to the December polls, a number of labour unions including the Government and Hospital Pharmacists Association (GHOSPA), Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG), and … Read more
Information reaching the Ghana News Agency indicates that there is an uneasy calm at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). This follows the refusal of Management to comply with a Supreme Court judgment in February 2009 that the Officers of the Division cannot unionize. The Supreme Court again in November 2015 ruled … Read more
Almost all the dictionaries i made reference to including Websters New World College Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary of English language defines a labour union as an organization of workers formed for the purpose of serving the members’ interests with respect to wages and working conditions by promoting and protecting the welfare,and rights of its … Read more
Mantrac Ghana has terminated the appointment of 70 of its workers which will take effective from Thursday 25th August, 2016 without prior notice to them. The termination letter, signed by Kingsley J. Amoako-Mensah, Human Resource Manager and distributed to the affected workers, stated that they had engaged in “an illegal industrial action.” The letter was … Read more