{"id":735986,"date":"2022-01-05T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cocoa-carriers-strike-to-demand-for-better-conditions\/"},"modified":"2022-01-05T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T11:59:09","slug":"cocoa-carriers-strike-to-demand-for-better-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cocoa-carriers-strike-to-demand-for-better-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa carriers strike to demand for better conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Wednesday,  5 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-05<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/32921599.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cocoa farmers are beginning a nationwide strike today\" title=\"Cocoa farmers are beginning a nationwide strike today\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Cocoa farmers are beginning a nationwide strike today<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Cocoa carriers are currently demonstrating in Kumasi over non-payment of salary and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).<\/p>\n<p>There are beginning a nationwide strike today, January 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 4 to 5 years now, our salaries have not been increased for cocoa carriers. They\u2019ve given us 62 pesewas for almost 4 years per bag until now they\u2019ve not increased it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were buses that were picking us from our homes to the warehouses that are the cocoa sheds. They\u2019ve cancelled that one too. What the workers are demanding for right now is either CMC pays them or increase the bag to \u00a21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s either COCOBOD cancels contracts with contractors and pays the cocoa carriers direct or they increase the pay to \u00a21 per bag\u201d, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all the cocoa carriers are demanding from the management of Cocoa Marketing Company and that today the strike begins and it shall continue till they listen to our petition,\u201d he told JoyNews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 5 January 2022 Source: 3news.com 2022-01-05 Cocoa farmers are beginning a nationwide strike today Cocoa carriers are currently demonstrating in Kumasi over non-payment of salary and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT). There are beginning a nationwide strike today, January 5, 2022. \u201cFrom 4 to 5 years now, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735986","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=735986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}