Offices of the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Ashanti region will be closed between 8:00 and 10:00 am on Wednesday.
The action is to demand severance packages as part of government’s arrangement to subsume the management of the ECG under a private concessionaire.
At an emergency meeting held across the country, the Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU), insisted that government would have to pay them a package in accordance with the labour act if the state is bent on ceding some ECG staff to a new – Company
They contend the sector minister; Boakye Agyarko has refused to respond to their demands triggering the industrial action which will be followed by other actions until the right thing in their estimation is done.
In the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi the press conference which was led by engineer Noah Arthur McLean pointed out that the workers see governments approach to solving the problems of the ECG, as lazy.
The position of the union on the PSP is that we are not against the compact in principle but we strongly object to the option of a concession as the module of the PSP for ECG. We have consistently maintained that the solution to the challenges facing ECG is in the domain of government and it is in the lazy and indiscipline approach to think that it is only through private sector participation that ECG can be turned around.”
The union blamed successive governments for failing “to appoint competent and dynamic leadership who will be given the free hand to operate devoid of political interference.
source:Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/ Ivan-Heathcote-Fumador/Patricia Ama Bonsu
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Offices of the Electricity Company of Ghana in the Ashanti region will be closed between 8:00 and 10:00 am on Wednesday. The action is to demand severance packages as part of government’s arrangement to subsume the management of the ECG under a private concessionaire. At an emergency meeting held across the country, the Public Utility […]
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