The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has threatened to picket or embark on a strike action if the management of the Sunon Asogli Power Ghana Limited does not reinstate three dismissed workers who happen to be their local union leaders.
The warning comes after a ultimatum given by the union for the company to reinstate the workers whose contracts were purportedly terminated because they joined the Ghana Mine Workers Union, an affiliate of the Trades Union Congress.
Speaking to the media, Joshua Ansah, the deputy secretary general of the Trades Union Congress, declared that the union is committed to seeing that the fired employees receive justice.
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“So, we are reviewing our internal mechanisms which include serving notices to the appropriate agencies including the Public Order Act and for our possible actions which include picketing and if we don’t still have an answer to our demand, it will be escalated into a possible strike action.”
“We are serving notice to the management of Sunon Asogli Power Ghana Limited, for them to actually listen and ensure that the three dismissed employees are reinstated otherwise or to avert possible actions from the whole workers of this very country against the company. Because we will not sit down and fold our arms for management to actually abuse our fundamental human rights”.
The union has already made it clear that it would not remain indifferent to the mistreatment of its members.
“This fight is not going to end today; we are going to fight until our demand is met and our boys are reinstated. It’s our right and we think that workers’ rights cannot be trampled upon by employers,” Mr. Ansah said.
“So, we are asking the government to direct the company to do what is right and to avert any possible industrial action in this very country. We mean it, and we are going to do it. Until our boys are reinstated until they stop abusing workers’ rights, until they do what is right, they will never see peace with workers of this very country”.
SOURCE: CITINEWS
