If the government does not provide the 20% Cost of Living Allowance in the upcoming weeks, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has urged all employees to be prepared to terminate their employment (COLA).
On Friday, June 24, Dr. Yaw Baah, the TUC Secretary-General, announced during a news conference in Kasoa, Ghana’s Central Region, that workers would not change their decision to strike and demonstrate until their demands were satisfied.
He claimed that the government had yet to comply with their demand for a 20% COLA, or cost of living adjustment, made during the May Day celebration.
“Workers have formed the union, they have selected leaders and to protect their interest. What we all agree is that the conditions now are not good. Inflation is running in the 20 per cents, when we were negotiating for public sector workers inflation was less than 10 per cent.
“If we, as unions, we are demanding something to improve the lives of workers, we cant call it disturbances, it is our legitimate right to fight for the workers of this country because without them Ghana will be nothing. We expect government and employers to know that we cannot live with this any longer,” he said.
