Work distress: We might get back to the 1970s, the signs are clear - Kwesi Pratt
Veteran Journalist, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has cautioned that Ghana may before long re-visitation of the feared long periods of work distress which justified ceaseless strike activities by work bunches as it occurred during the 1970s.
As per him, the ongoing monetary difficulty has caused some disturbance on the work front in the nation, prompting what is happening where work bunches are taking a unified front to request what is expected them.
In a Good Morning Ghana interview checked by GhanaWeb, Pratt added that to stop this, the public authority should ensure that the associations feel part of the choice overseeing the country is taking.
"There is some intense disturbance on the work front. I feel that is an immediate outcome of the monetary emergency that we're going through … the strikes have all the earmarks of being developing and every one of the signs are that we may in the event that we don't require some investment return to the last part of the 1970s. This is precisely exact thing occurred in the last part of the 1970s… with every one of the strikes what began by coordinated work and which was subsequently joined by the expert affiliation.
"As a matter of fact, when I read a portion of the assertions (by the worker's guilds) like I am perusing proclamations were made during the 1970s. I feel that we should be exceptionally cautious. I believe that we should devise a system which will guarantee that everyone has an agreeable outlook on the actions we mean to take to reduce the enduring of individuals," he said.
He offered these comments while responding to the continuous strike by pre-tertiary schooling instructors and dangers by other trade guilds to leave on modern activities.
The Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of Graduate Teachers, Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana and the Teachers and Educational Workers Union started cross country strike activity on Monday, June 4, 2022.
The strike, as per the initiative of the instructor associations, is resultant of the disappointment of the public authority to satisfy their needs for a 20% Cost of Living Allowance.
"We have been constrained under the ongoing conditions to freely impart to Ghanaians on our expectation to picket, having gone past the June 30, 2022 cutoff time we gave government for the installment of Cost-of-Living-Allowance. Subsequently, we have chosen to set out on a Strike Action, powerful today, Monday, July 4, 2022.
"By this, we are illuminating the overall population that, we are pulling out the entirety of our administrations in all the Pre-tertiary instructive space. (Educating and Non-Teaching Staff)," the gathering expressed in an official statement.
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