{"id":1262992,"date":"2022-12-08T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/show-madness-tucs-joshua-ansah-incites-workers-against-leaders-over-debt-exchange\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:48:18","slug":"show-madness-tucs-joshua-ansah-incites-workers-against-leaders-over-debt-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/08\/show-madness-tucs-joshua-ansah-incites-workers-against-leaders-over-debt-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Show &#8216;madness&#8217; &#8211; TUC&#8217;s Joshua Ansah incites workers against leaders over Debt Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"387\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Strike.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Strike-696x387.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"387\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Strike-696x387.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Strike.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Deputy Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has charged a group of workers to rise up and fight for what rightfully belongs to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Ansah said if the workers do not show some kind of \u201cmadness\u201d, they will be taken for granted by the country\u2019s political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He made this rally while addressing members of the Ghana Mine Workers Union over the Debt Exchange Programme rolled out by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Monday, December 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to inject the spirit of madness in all of you,\u201d he pronounced, much to applause and shouts of approval from the dozens of workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am telling you because for six years now in your regular National Executive Council meetings, if you take the speeches by your General Secretary, you can see the things he has highlighted on, how many of them have materialised?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they see us to be too gentle. They see Ghanaian workers to be people who can be cheated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ansah said it will be unacceptable for government to take 35 percent of investments in the name of the Debt Exchange Programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we going to sit down for this to happen in this country? 35% payee, how much is the salary and you take the 35, how much will remain for you to take care of your family? Are you going to sit down for your pension to be hair cut? It should never happen,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He said if there should be any haircut, the president and his ministers\u2019 hairs must rather be cut first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy can\u2019t the government reduce his ministers and save cost?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Already, some labour unions have served notice they will not allow the Programme to affect their investments.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) has charged a group of workers to rise up and fight for what rightfully belongs to them. Joshua Ansah said if the workers do not show some kind of \u201cmadness\u201d, they will be taken for granted by the country\u2019s political leaders. He made this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[12654,1580,1418,29665,8630,1865,3956,2210,29666,1869],"class_list":["post-1262992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ansah","tag-debt","tag-exchange","tag-incites","tag-joshua","tag-leaders","tag-madness","tag-show","tag-tucs","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262992","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=1262992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}