Deputy General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, ICU, Morgan Ayawini, has described government’s introduction of six new taxes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as “unnationalistic”.
Delivering the keynote address at the Eastern Regional ICU Delegates’ Conference in Koforidua, he said the new taxes will be a burden on Ghanaian workers who are already struggling to make ends meet.
Mr. Ayawini said the destruction of regular employment by some employers, which is detrimental to workers’ interest and adversely affects their income and livelihoods saying this should be relentlessly fought by trade unions.
He said the right to belong to a trade union as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution cannot be taken away by anyone and is therefore illegal to prevent workers from exercising their right to join any union of their choice.
Mr. Ayawini said executives are working towards making the ICU a better union for the benefit of members.
That was the Deputy General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Morgan Ayawini.
For his part, the Eastern Regional Officer of the ICU, Richard Kumi, disclosed that his team is in consultation with about five hundred staff of the Akosombo Textiles Limited, ATL, to register them as members of the union.
He said through their effort, a retired staff of the Akwapim Rural Bank, who had been in service for thirty years, was given an end of service benefit of ninety thousand Ghana Cedis, which the bank was previously unwilling to pay.
