{"id":1224686,"date":"2022-10-14T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/metro-mass-workers-call-off-strike-after-meeting-with-nlc\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:33:13","slug":"metro-mass-workers-call-off-strike-after-meeting-with-nlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/14\/metro-mass-workers-call-off-strike-after-meeting-with-nlc\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Mass workers call off strike after meeting with NLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The striking workers of Metro Mass Transit have suspended the industrial action after meeting the National Labour Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The workers who have been on a sit-down strike since October 12 agreed to return to work on the advice of the NLC to allow the disagreeing parties to come to the table and find lasting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The employees laid down their tools because of the delay in the payment of their two months\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons of Metro Mass Transit were left stranded across the country, eventually prompting the intervention of the NLC.<\/p>\n<p>They were also demanding the <strong>dismissal of their Managing Director<\/strong>, whom they blame for their current condition.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Mass Transit\u2019s management responded to the calls saying the company\u2019s struggles were because of logistical constraints.<\/p>\n<p>It has said it has only 187 buses nationwide and struggles to generate enough revenue for 2,000 workers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7eMUNckhvVw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Labour unrest: Workers in Kumasi join nationwide sit-down strike to demand salary arrears | CNR\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7eMUNckhvVw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The striking workers of Metro Mass Transit have suspended the industrial action after meeting the National Labour Commission. The workers who have been on a sit-down strike since October 12 agreed to return to work on the advice of the NLC to allow the disagreeing parties to come to the table and find lasting solutions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224686","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=1224686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}