General News of Monday, 12 July 2021
Source: classfmonline.com
2021-07-12
General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson
The General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Mr Abraham Koomson has labelled as “criminal” and nonsensical the decision to pay the wives of President Nana Addo dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia.
In an interview with ClassFM he said; “I can’t understand. This is coming from a president who promised not to increase his salary as well as those of his ministers during this year’s May Day celebration, if you are going to pay your wife, what kind of dishonesty is this?”
“Everybody is annoyed. The workers are even attacking us; they are even insulting us that we go to agree on six per cent, four per cent [pay rise] without considering their plight then we sit down, we fold our arms for the presidency to allocate all these monies … and the annoying thing is that they are going to pay them ‘back-pay since 2017. It is criminal,” an angry Mr Koomson noted.
He said workers are agitated about the development adding that;
“There are some groups whose executives are compromised and even if you push them to talk, they’ll say: ‘Oh, this is political. Nonsense. Political. But what work are we doing?
“What is the mission of the trade unions? Our relevance has been eroded and very soon workers will decide not to join any union at all. It will happen”, he predicted.
In his view, the youth must wake up and ask their leaders questions. “Are you happy with what is happening? I’ll continue to talk. What kind of nonsense is this?”