A handful of employees have been urged by the Deputy Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) to rise up and fight for what is rightfully theirs.
According to Joshua Ansah, the political elites of the nation will take the workers for granted if they do not exhibit some sort of “madness.”
On Monday, December 5, he addressed members of the Ghana Mine Workers Union in a rally regarding the Debt Exchange Program implemented by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.
To loud cheers and applause from the many workers, he declared, “I want to inject the spirit of madness in all of you.”
“I 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?
“Because they see us to be too gentle. They see Ghanaian workers to be people who can be cheated.”
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Mr Ansah said it will be unacceptable for government to take 35 percent of investments in the name of the Debt Exchange Programme.
“Are 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,” he stressed.
He said if there should be any haircut, the president and his ministers’ hairs must rather be cut first.
“Why can’t the government reduce his ministers and save cost?”
Already, some labour unions have served notice they will not allow the Programme to affect their investments.
