{"id":1139590,"date":"2022-07-01T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/tuc-kicks-against-govt-seeking-imf-support\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:19:54","slug":"tuc-kicks-against-govt-seeking-imf-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/01\/tuc-kicks-against-govt-seeking-imf-support\/","title":{"rendered":"TUC kicks against govt seeking IMF support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-112-696x464.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"TUC boss\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is kicking against suggestions that government should consider seeking a financial bailout from IMF to address the escalating economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The General Secretary of the TUC, Dr Yaw Baah, explained that previous IMF interventions have not been able to address the country\u2019s economic challenges, so such a move will only worsen the country\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to him, is because of the conditions attached to the IMF\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment has been to IMF 16 times for IMF programmes, but we are where we are today therefore, that is not the solution. It\u2019s like saying that this is not working. So let\u2019s do more of it. It doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, proposed homegrown solutions to deal with the situation, adding that \u201cwe will be very surprised if government goes to IMF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only government that is running the country. We have such organizations, we have trade unions, we have business organizations. I know that Ghanaians have solutions to our problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana government should bring all of us together. Let us discuss the issues one after the other. I\u2019m very confident we have a solution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also demanded an immediate negotiation between government and the labour union towards the payment of cost of living allowances stating that public sector workers are suffering due to their meager salaries.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6w6kL63L3Bg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asukodo: Ghana To Import Water If Pollution Of Water Bodies Continues -  Adom TV (1-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6w6kL63L3Bg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is kicking against suggestions that government should consider seeking a financial bailout from IMF to address the escalating economic crisis. The General Secretary of the TUC, Dr Yaw Baah, explained that previous IMF interventions have not been able to address the country\u2019s economic challenges, so such a move will only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[225,3074,6261,9505,115,6547],"class_list":["post-1139590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-govt","tag-imf","tag-kicks","tag-seeking","tag-support","tag-tuc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}