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General News of Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Source: the Chronicle
2019-01-23
The injured workers, among others, have complained of unpaid risk
More than 19 Ghanaian workers at the Fabrimetal Company Limited in Saglemi, Ningo-Prampram district, lost their daily bread after protesting their human resources director, Bernard Avortri, for working in deplorable conditions.
According to The Chronicle's audits, the company did not register any deaths, but horrific, temporary or permanent work-related accidents, neutralized most of the workers who were fired for claiming better job conditions. job.
The injuries occurred in the boiler and milling departments, where workers shouted that there were no strict safety rules to reduce damage or spills. They complained that no risk allowance was paid to them either.
The peaceful protest of angry workers, which attracted a wide range of media outlets, was greeted hostile by the head of human resources, who brutally attacked journalists including Elvis Washington, Citi FM, Vincent Kubi, Daily Guide, and Johnny Dormenu, TV3, destroying their phones.
His physical attack on the media, outside the company's premises, angered the protesters who, in order to protect the journalists, pushed the head of human resources into a pit.
When he managed to get out of the gutter, Mr. Avortri chose a club and hit the head of one of the workers, who was protecting journalists until safety.
His latest action prompted the workers to pursue the human resources manager in a ride style, both inside and outside the company, until the management of the workers calm them down and bring Mr. Avortri back to safety.
Chronicle checks at the Prampram district police station revealed that four of the protesters were later thrown into prison after Bernard Avortri reported them for badault.
Detective Josephine, who was in charge of the case, however, told The Chronicle that the suspects, after locking them in a cage for a day, were released on bail.
Fabrimetal Company Limited was subsequently closed for two or three days. When production resumed at full capacity in January this year, more than 19 workers, including wounded and suspects, were fired by Bernard Avortri and three Ghanaian contractors. would have encouraged workers to protest for their rights.
Bernard Avortri later told the media that his decision was final and that no one could challenge it. The more than 19 workers who were dismissed said they had officially written to the labor manager in Accra so that they would intervene so that they would be called back to work.
Although this letter was not seen by The Chronicle, a letter of resolution, signed by Kwame Anthony and copied to the management of Fabrimetal Ghana Limited, to all contractors and police in Tsopoli District, indicated that Part: "All workers have solved this problem, as well as the government, should investigate all the problems related to their dismissal and allow the labor law to operate also at Fabrimetal.
"We want management to allow us to form a union by allowing us to immediately elect the leadership of our union." Letter dated December 22, 2018.
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