Dr. Yaw Baah<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Organised Labour has urged the government to protect workers\u2019 Constitutional right to join any union of their choice.<\/p>\n
According to the group, there is an ongoing violation of workers\u2019 right to join or form trade unions by some employers.<\/p>\n
General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Dr. Yaw Baah, speaking on behalf of Organised Labour at the commemoration of the 2023 Worker\u2019s Day in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Region, said some unscrupulous employers are victimizing workers for forming or joining union(s).<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many Ghanaian workers remain outside the coverage of collective agreements because of fear of victimization from their employers. This is the fate of many Ghanaians who are working for foreign companies across all sectors of the economy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Baah said managers in these companies are deliberately frustrating the efforts of Ghanaian workers to exercise their constitutional right to join a union of their choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrently, we are dealing with a very strange case at Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd. at Kpone where the Chinese managers in the company, with the support of their Ghanaian counterparts, have dismissed three trade union leaders for leading the unionization of workers in the company,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
The TUC Secretary General said the unionized workers are being intimated and threatened on daily basis to the extent that the Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has had to intervene to help resolve the impasse between the union and management of Sunon Asogli Power Ghana Ltd.<\/p>\n
\u201cEfforts to unionize workers in other companies especially those in the telecom, banking and hotels and restaurant sectors are also being frustrated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. President, we do not think our government should allow such a thing to happen in our country at this day and age. We expect government to do something about this urgently,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n
Dr. Baah further called for the revamping of some dying state institutions and government projects including the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) Saglame Housing Project.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot allow that project to go waste when many workers who are contributing so much to Ghana\u2019s development cannot have places to lay their heads,\u201d he said. We believe that government has the capacity to revamp TOR. We are appealing to you to use your good offices to change the fortunes of TOR.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2023 May Day celebration was on the theme, \u201c\u2018Protecting Incomes and Pensions in an Era of Economic Crises: Our Responsibility\u2019.<\/p>\n
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