Industrial peace rests on dialogue
Dr Nii Moi Thompson AN INTERNATIONAL Project Expert, Dr. Nii-Moi Thompson, has said in order to maintain industrial peace in the country, it behoves labour movements, employers and government to hold talks rather than create industrial unrest all the time.
According to him, through dialogue, “we can get industrial peace and within that peace, we can then plan and grow the economy”.
Interacting with pressmen as part of activities lined up for the International Labour Organisation (ILO's) 90th anniversary at a soiree last Wednesday in Accra, the renowned economist noted that the organisation had over the years promoted tripartite arrangements in Ghana, which is represented by the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare, the Ghana Employers Association and the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Ghana, he mentioned, joined the ILO in 1957 and had benefited tremendously from its convention.
The ILO was founded in 1919 at the end of the First World War peace conference in Versailles in France. Its Constitution was adopted by the conference in April 1919.
He added that in recent times, the organisation had moved beyond these conventions into actively helping to promote employment. He however noted that one way of promoting employment was to create new businesses while already existing ones undergo expansion.
Kofi Asamoah, TUC's Secretary General also indicated that the ILO had promoted a very strong and efficient bond between government and the parties involved in the welfare of workers in Ghana.
He said that the country's well-built tripartite practice- even though it has not ratified the convention on tripartism- is as a result of interventions by the International Labour Organisation.