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The Trade Union of Workers of Industry and Trade (ICU), a member of the Trades Union Congress of Ghana (TUC), wants the leadership of Mövenpick to promptly attack allegations of racial discrimination made by their Ghanaian employees .
Some services of this luxurious hotel in Accra were suspended after the hundred workers who laid down their tools and gathered in the lobby of the hotel to protest Wednesday.
Dressed in red cloth thongs, a usual sign of the hustle and bustle of workers in Ghana, Movenpick's staff wore placards with inscriptions including; "Nadja has to leave", "Ghana is our homeland", "GM has to leave" and "Equality of rights", in the middle of the drums.
Wednesday's protest was the second in six days after a similar action last Friday.
The staff accused the hotel management of protecting an expatriate employee who violated the hotel's code of ethics, but when local employees commit a similar offense, they are immediately fired.
The ICU leadership, which is working to defend the interests of Ghanaian workers, said the five-star hotel must urgently tackle these problems by subjecting expatriate workers to the same punitive measures as Ghanaian workers.
Morgan Ayawine, Assistant Secretary General for Operations at the USI, said Wednesday that it was incomprehensible that management claims to have forwarded a report on the offense committed by the expatriate to his lawyers so that he gives advice and when it is established that Ghanaian workers have committed similar offenses, they are outright dismissed and reported to the police.
"We are against the fact that the first report is submitted to legal counsel because it never happened. Several investigations have been conducted on this type of offenses, but no such request or requirement has been made. Is it because the person involved happens to be a manager? So, because the person is a manager, we refer the result of the investigation to legal counsel, but if it is the ordinary worker, they treat him directly without consulting their lawyers, said Citi FM, based in Accra, on its portal of information: saying.
Ayawine said UTI had seen a copy of the report recommending the dismissal of local agents who violated the hotel's code of ethics, but added that "the management is trying to conceal this report because this is a confidential document ".
He added that the ICU is still reviewing its options in case the report's recommendations are not implemented by 1 pm on Thursday.
Other USI members who negotiated the stalemate with Mr. Ayawine include Emmanuel Benimah, secretary general of the USI administration, and Marku Vondee, head of industrial relations. from the USI.
Meanwhile, calm worries the hotel as the restless staff resumes Thursday.
Credit: Daily Graphic and Citi FM
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