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President Kufuor assures workers fair
share of the the economy
Accra, Jan. 3, Ghanadot/GNA - President John Agyekum on
Thursday pledged Government's unwavering commitment towards
ensuring a fair wages and salaries system that would enable
Ghanaian workers to enjoy decent lives.
"We would never cheat or take the workforce for a ride," he
said, when the outgoing Secretary General of the Trades
Union Congress (TUC), Mr Kwasi Adu-Amankwaah paid a courtesy
call on him at the Castle, Osu.
Accompanied by the Executive Committee Members of the Union,
Mr Adu-Amankwaa was there to officially inform President
Kufuor of his new appointment as the General Secretary of
the International Trades Union Confederation (ITUC), African
Regional Organization, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.
With this, he has relinquished
his position at the TUC.
President Kufuor said depending on how well the economy
performed, the benefits would be rolled out for all.
The labour union must, therefore, continue to urge its
members to be motivated into higher productivity.
He was emphatic that the Government within the past seven
years had done well in terms of wages and salaries and gave
the assurance that they would continue to work with labour
to improve the situation of workers.
President Kufuor, who congratulated Mr Adu-Amankwaah on his
international appointment, counselled him to use his
position to influence various Governments and communities in
Africa to work towards common principles of good governance.
Issues of democracy and the values of human rights he said,
should engage his attention even as he sought to help to
raise the conditions of workers at the regional level.
Mr Adu-Amankwaah, whose appointment is for four years,
thanked President Kufuor for the high level of co-operation
existing between the TUC and Government and said he had
every reason to believe that this would continue.
He said he was assuming the new office at a time when there
was much focus on regional integration and pledged to work
with African Governments to negotiate for better trade deals
on the Continent.
He used the occasion to introduce Mr Kofi Asamoah, the
Acting Secretary General of the TUC to President Kufuor.
GNA
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