A strike is not the ultimate answer

I must confess I am prejudiced in favour of the aims of organised labour as represented by the TUC.  I had an office in the TUC building when I formed the Social Democratic Front (SDF) in 1978.  I believed then, as I did in Nkrumah’s time, that labour and government should work together to develop the new nation of Ghana.  I did not subscribe to the idea of a “free” trade union acting in confrontation with the elected government which is committed to freeing the people from ignorance, poverty and squalor.

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