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20.11.2014 Special Report

TRADERS, KAYAYE’S JOINED LABOUR DEMONSTRATION IN KUMASI

By Isaac Okyere
TRADERS, KAYAYES JOINED LABOUR DEMONSTRATION IN KUMASI
20.11.2014 LISTEN

The Ashanti Regional section of the twelve labour unions has embarked on massive demonstration in Kumasi hitting the streets in the metropolis to express their displeasure to government failure to pay them their Tier-2 pension scheme.

The demonstration calls for thousands of people from various labour and workers union thus, NAT, NAGRAT, TEWU, CCT, HSWU, GRNA, GHPA, ANESTES, GMA, CLOSAG among others, from various constituencies in the region including traders and kayaye's. Traders and the Kayaye's join the demonstrators along the ling as they are moving through the streets.

The demonstration was following the agitation by the twelve labour unions in the country to government seeking their tier to pension allowance that government must pay to them. The government sent the matter to court to send the workers back to work when the union was on strike.

The court last sitting on Tuesday adjourn the case to 24th November this year. This order by the court prompts the executives of the twelve labour unions to call for immediate demonstration at the countries major cities Kumasi and Accra.

The demonstration high the theme: “We need and demand our tier-2 pension scheme now, our pension is our future income security.”

In the Ashanti region, the workers emerge at the Kumasi cultural center today as a start point through areas like Pampaso, Adum, KMA among others where they moves through hitting the streets of Kumasi, with chanting, drumming and singing, exhibition of written placards. The demonstration finally ends at the regional coordinating council (RCC).

The head of compensation and working condition of GNAT, Mr. Ahenekwa Quashie speaking to morden news said, they are very disappointed the way government is handling the Tier-2 pension scheme. He said, is not that we are destabilizing the peace of the government, but rather fighting for their future income security.

According to him, there are most workers approaching their pension years or age, which of soon they will go home. “This people need to be income secured as they are going home”, he stated.

However, Ashanti regional president of the Health Service Workers Union Mr. Ernest Badu Boateng also said, they will continue to protest till government listen to them.

He added that, they have started this demonstration in the two major cities Accra and Kumasi, but Ghana will soon experience this in other regions nationwide if government refuses for positive response.

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