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Regional News from Sunday, February 17, 2019
Source: Nkiligi FM
2019-02-17
Some workers in protest
Workers at Savanna Cement Company (SAVACEM) in Buipe set up their tools and promised never to return to work if the company management did not check their terms of service.
About 98% of the workers at the cement factory refused Saturday to enter the factory premises and threatened to never work there again.
According to the disaffected workforce of the company, the management has not, over the years, increased its wages substantially to match the workforce of its workers.
A maximum increase of a Ghanaian cedi is what we add this year to the already minimal wage rate of workers that they termed lean.
The company's managing director, Mr. Srinvasa Rao, however, is very determined never to listen to the demands of the workers and threatened to threaten them that any worker who is not satisfied with the rate of pay can resign from his full position. will.
The manager regularly stated that there was no work in Ghana and that the hoes would definitely come back to plead again.
The heads of departments of the different units of the company are not satisfied with the decision of the Director General, because they directly supervise the workforce and know what rate is appropriate for each worker and therefore made the increases accordingly. met with strong opposition from the Director General who would not take advice from any of his subordinates.
Mr. Saaka Krantomah, former member of the Assembly for the constituency of Buipe, and stakeholders of the Canton of Buipe have pleaded with more than one thousand (1,000) workers of the company for that they cancel their decision and return to work. demanding an immediate response from management.
They therefore seek to petition the chiefs, the police of Buipe and, what is most important, the direction before going down to the streets to protest in the coming days.
SAVACEM has been in the news for the wrong reasons. Recall that a worker, Dogbey Dotsey, age thirty-nine (39), lost his right arm as a result of his involvement in an accident at the Buipe de la Savannah Cement plant. Company (SAVACEM) last year.
Dogbey Dotsey was running a machine at the cement plant when he suddenly realized that the machine had stopped working for unexplained reasons. And as it was his schedule, he decided to fix the fault and fix it in order to continue production, but in the process, the machines started independently, dragging the long-sleeved shirt he wore and cut off his arm.
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