Business News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>3news.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-11<\/p>\n Cocoa porters who demonstrated in Kumasi over non payment of salary and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and further declared nationwide strike have suspended their industrial action.<\/p>\n They started the nationwide strike on Wednesday 5th January, 2022.<\/p>\n \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. \u201c<\/p>\n \u201cThere were buses that were picking us from our homes to the warehouses that\u2019s the cocoa sheds. They\u2019ve canceled that one too. What the workers are demanding for right now is either CMC pays them or increase the bag to \u00a21.<\/p>\n \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 \u201cthis is all the cocoa carriers are demanding from the management of Cocoa Marketing Company and that today the strike begin and it shall continue till they listen to our petition\u201d he said.<\/p>\n But Chairman for the Cocoa Carriers, Raymond Abobiga Atanga told journalists that they had to suspend the action in the interest of the country.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is painful but because of our motherland, we have to do this. We want to tell the government and the COCOBOD management that this is not over. Next season, we expect them to put things in order before we start work, if not they have failed as management.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have fought a good fight, and today I want to humbly announce to all of us that because of our motherland Ghana, let\u2019s not allow all the citizens to suffer, so let\u2019s work and pray that COCOBOD will attend to our needs.<\/p>\n \u201cAll carriers should go back to work. If they can\u2019t go today, please take the allocation and go tomorrow,\u201d he announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Business News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022 Source: 3news.com 2022-01-11 The nationwide strike commenced on January 5th Cocoa porters who demonstrated in Kumasi over non payment of salary and the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and further declared nationwide strike have suspended their industrial action. They started the nationwide strike on Wednesday 5th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744970","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\/744970","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=744970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/69368956.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The nationwide strike commenced on January 5th<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n