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General News on Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-04-30
Workers from various organizations at the May Day parade
The national parade on May 1st this year, to be held tomorrow, May 1st, 2019, will take a different format. Workers from 35 organized unions will converge around 7 am in Obra Spot on the Kwame Nkrumah interchange. to embark on a procession to Black Star Square, where the national celebrations will take place.
As part of this new arrangement, workers walk from Circle to Farrar Avenue, at the TUC headquarters traffic lights, to the Organized Economic Crime Bureau (EOCO), the polo field, and then move to the square. Black Star.
This is different from past events where workers gathered in the square for the May Day parade.
May 1st Vice President of the National Planning Committee Susie Afua Adoboe said in an interview with the Daily Graphic that the Kwame Nkrumah circle procession at Black Star Square was intended to draw more attention to the issue. Event in the matter of pensions by carrying placards and banners on the streets and sending the expected messages.
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"The format has changed, you know that previously we all converge on Black Star Square, go through a parade after which the president of the country and the general secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions (TUC) address us," said Mrs. Adoboe. .
She said that this year it would not be like that – the workers, who will be led by their various leaders, will go in procession.
You know that it is not everyone who will watch TV, there are people who will be busy, while workers are crossing the main streets, these streets can also see them and read their messages.
Convergence
Workers are expected at the Plaza Square by 10 am for the main national event.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo will then address the workers after the TUC Secretary General's speech.
At the event, workers who have distinguished themselves in various fields will receive various awards with quotes.
Ms. Adoboe said that public and private sector workers, including teacher unions such as the National Association of Teachers of Ghana (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) , Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Ghana Labor Federation, Ghana Nurses Association (GRNA), Local Government Workers Union, Ghana Mine Workers Union, Road Transport Workers Union Ghana (GPRTU) and the amalgamated Pensions.
"In addition to the national event taking place in Accra, regional events would take place in the 10 previous regions. Greater Accra, Central, East, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, North, High East … of the country.
This is due to the fact that the six new regions – … are being set up, so we are using the 10 old regions, "she explained.
Theme
The theme of this year's event is "Sustainable pensions for all – the role of the social partners", and Ms Adoboe said the theme was chosen carefully because "the pension is for every worker from the day you go to work".
"If you are in good health and you are going to work, you have no problem, but if you retire, that's the reality. We want the government to pay attention to the demands of all workers, "she explained.
"When most people go home, what they give them can not support them. We want the government to act on workers' pensions, it should be improved, "she said.
Ms. Adoboe said she was expecting the government to improve workers' pensions.
Support
Regarding the support, she said, she comes from the various member unions as part of a cost-sharing initiative, adding that each union was supposed to contribute to the organization of the event national.
Sponsorships were also solicited from corporations and the government.
Joshua Ansah
TUC Deputy Secretary General Joshua Ansah told the Daily Graphic in a separate interview that the change was aimed at ensuring that the workers were calm and collected at the time of the May 1 speeches.
At previous celebrations, he said the workers pbaded by and greeted the secretary general and the president.
Similar parades allowed workers in the regions and districts to walk and greet regional secretaries general and the president's representatives.
Speech
This year, Secretary-General Yaw Baah will deliver his May 1 address on workers' pensions.
Already, a forum prior to May 1 had brought together experts to involve workers in their pensions.
The Secretary General will also take the opportunity to talk about his pbadion, namely gender inequalities even in pensions.
Baah will also highlight the lack of a safety net for informal sector workers, such as farmers, who are retired.
It will ask the government to commit to reactivate a policy of granting pensions to cocoa farmers and extend it to all informal sector workers.
May 211
The May Day celebration, also known as International Workers Day, marks its 211th anniversary.
The international commemoration of a workers day was officially instituted in 1891 to commemorate the Haymarket Mbadacre in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
Four workers among a crowd of protesting workers demanding an eight-hour workday were killed when an unidentified person threw a bomb into the crowd.
The police were sent to quell the strike and began shooting at them, killing the four people.
Commitments after the riots among the workers led to the recognition of May Day as an international day at which workers are celebrated.
At the international level, workers will commemorate and commit to the theme: Uniting workers for social and economic progress.
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