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General News of Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-05-01
play the videoWorkers engaged in a procession between Obra Spot and Black Star Square to mark this year's event
On May 1, staff from 35 organized unions gathered in the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to attend the Black Star Square procession, where this year's Labor Day was marked.
The participants traveled Circle from Farrar Avenue, the TUC headquarters traffic lights, then headed for the Economic and Organized Crime Bureau (EOCO), and then headed for Black Star Square.
Public and private sector workers, including the National Association of Teachers of Ghana (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), the Ghana Federation of Labor, the Ghana Graduate Nurses Association (GRNA), the local government officials the Ghana Mine Workers Union, the Ghana Private Sector Transport Union (GPRTU), the credit unions of Ghana merged pensions, etc., participated in the march.
May 1st Vice President of the National Planning Committee, Susie Afua Adoboe, said in an interview with www.ghanaweb.com that the purpose of the procession was to raise awareness of the pension issue by carrying signs and banners in the streets to express their grievances.
She wondered what the SSNIT employee contributions were for, since they did not receive their lump-sum benefits at retirement.
Ms. Adoboe explained that the unions have been complaining to the government persistently about the "very small" amount that public service workers receive in retirement without result.
She reiterated that very little effort had been made as a result of appeals to the government to address this particular concern of the unions, hence their decision to embark on a peaceful march.
"As workers, we decided to pay more attention to our pension. We have noticed, as a trade unionist, that most of our workers, when they retire, get something lean and worrisome. You spend most of your life at work, retire at age 60, and only come home to know that some people are taking 200 cedis. How can this support you? You will pay bills and if your children do not support you, how are you going to survive? She said.
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