{"id":275240,"date":"2011-02-02T04:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=50368"},"modified":"2011-02-02T04:10:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:10:38","slug":"poverty-strikes-journalists-44-earn-below-average-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/02\/poverty-strikes-journalists-44-earn-below-average-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Strikes Journalists&#8230;44% Earn Below Average Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As published today by the state-owned media <strong>Daily Graphic<\/strong>,  the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the Trades Union Congress  (TUC) has come out with a finding that almost half of media workers in  the country earn less than GH\u20b5200 a month.<br \/>\nAccording to the  study, 44 percent of the media workforce earn below the average income  in the industry, which was said to be GH\u20b5200.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the  issue, Mr. Dave Agbenu, Acting General Secretary of GJA (Ghana  Journalists Association) confirmed the findings contained in the  research, adding that a lot of journalists are not receiving the  appropriate remuneration.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026many of the media organizations don\u2019t  factor in remuneration of journalists, and therefore many of them are  not paid well. A lot of journalists are not getting the appropriate  remuneration, and this is something we have known for a long time,\u201d he  said.<br \/>\nIn an interview with Suhini Alhassan on <strong>Radio Gold<\/strong>,  the acting GJA General Secretary said that the situation is having a  telling effect on journalists, since whenever they go on assignments  they always expect an \u2018envelope\u2019 to be given to them.<br \/>\nMr. Agbenu,  who believes unionization offers the best solution in solving the  problem, also maintained that if journalists are in the know of their  minimum wage, they can then demand for an increase if their income is  below their minimum wage.<br \/>\n\u201conce we are unionized we can  negotiate minimum wages for our members, we have written to the Trades  Union Congress and they have replied, what is left is to have the  bargaining certificates which will allow us to move into the media  houses to ensure our members are unionized,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As published today by the state-owned media Daily Graphic, the Labour Research and Policy Institute of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has come out with a finding that almost half of media workers in the country earn less than GH\u20b5200 a month. 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