The ICU’s General-Secretary, Morgan Ayawine, stated that working class people require peace in order to “earn our livelihoods since in the absence of peace, we cannot attend to our work” in his May Day speech.
“Peace and stability unequivocally play a pivotal role in the socio-economic and national development scheme of things. “It is, therefore, incumbent on each and every one in this country to work at securing peace in every sense of the word and in every facet of our lives, especially during this political season where peace could easily be compromised and we may no longer have that peaceful country called Ghana,” he added.
This year’s May Day Celebration was on the theme: Election 2024: “The role of workers and social partners in securing peaceful elections for national development.”
According to Mr. Ayawine, the yearly commemoration of the occasion serves as a somber reminder of the difficult road that the union’s forebears had to travel for nearly 150 years.
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The General-Secretary stated that once it was determined that businesses and economies were rebounding and that the results were favorable, such a legacy had to be zealously guarded from any employer who could wish to undercut labor under the pretense of a worldwide economic downturn.
“While we work collaboratively with our social partners to increase jobs and protect same, it is pertinent to sound a note of caution to employers who indulge in such demeaning practices of converting permanent job positions to casual and contract work in a bid to maximise profit to halt the practice outrightly,” Mr Ayawine said.
The General-Secretary went on to thank every employee for contributing to the country’s rapid economic growth. For the sake of everyone and the growth of the national economy, he urged them to keep doing everything in their power to guarantee high productivity, profitability, and sustainability of enterprises in order to meet organizational goals.
According to Mr. Ayawine, the union was aware of the rippling effects of the post-COVID and Russia-Ukraine War conflict, which nearly caused the economy to collapse. “But, that notwithstanding, the government has a herculean task of putting in place realistic and realisable economic measures that are sustainable and able to quickly turn around the current economic downturn,” he said.
