EMPLOYMENT MINISTER AND HIS ASSOCIATES ARE ON TOP OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS €“ OPPONG NKRUMAH

January 9, 2022
3 years ago

The Information Ministry , Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has guaranteed that the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah and his partners are working to resolve the current mechanical activities within the nation.


Agreeing to him, it is justifiable that laborers will disturb for more, but that must be juxtaposed with how much is accessible to reply to their demands.


“My understanding is that the Minister for Employment and his partners are exceptionally much on beat of it, and helping the front line Ministries like Education and what have you, to undertake and find that appropriate adjustment between demand and supply of Labour. And our trust is that they will be fruitful sooner than afterward”, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said.

He moreover demonstrated that work unrests are exceptionally common within the moment term of any administration and they are frequently impacted by political rivals.

“I think the reality too is that, ordinarily when a government is done with its to begin with term, you’ll see a part of endeavors to whip up work apprehension from different parts of the body politic. Our trust is that, that’s not what’s happening in this occasion, which the genuine concerns that are being raised by these work unions can be tended to as before long as conceivable”, he famous.


The MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi stressed that, the demands from the work unions trigger the address of the availability for assets to meet those demands. In this way, there’s got to be a  center on how government rakes in more income.


At the starting of this year, the Certified Registered Anaesthetists (CRAs) declared the total withdrawal of their administrations, viable Saturday, January, 1, 2022. A letter co-marked by the President, James Nwinsagra and the General Secretary, Frederick K. Kporxah clarified that they took the choice since “individuals are not properly licenced to hone”.

This was taken after a explanation by the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) on January 5, when the bunch reported a nationwide strike over government’s disappointment to pay all exceptional overdue debts relating to their proficient improvement remittances.


In the blink of an eye after TEWU’s declaration, the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), moreover issued an explanation on January 8, declaring an arranged nationwide strike, which is set to require off on Monday, January 10, 2021.


Mr. Oppong Nkrumah accentuated that, “as we request, we too need to see at the supply side. And it is when we’re able to coordinate the two, that a few balance will be brought to bear”.


These three mechanical activities at the start of the year have created broad concerns, with a area of the masses dreading the plausibility of more work unrests within the coming months.


But Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah guaranteed of government’s status to deal definitively with the developing concerns on the work front.