Sunyani, (Brong Ahafo) Sept. 24, ’98
The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has implored the leadership of the newly organised Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) to consider merging with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to ensure unity at the labour front. It said experiences from other countries clearly indicate that multiplicity in national labour organisations undermines the strength, resolve and the capacity of labour unions to seek the welfare of workers with one voice. This was contained in a four-point resolution adopted by delegates of the union at the end of a week long seminar on trade unionism at Sunyani. The seminar was organised by TEWU, educational and the Netherland Trade Union. The resolution further called on the government to sit down with social partners and other labour unions to find solution to certain aspects of the Price Waterhouse Report which have been found to be inimical to the welfare of public sector employees. It impressed upon the Ghana Education Service (GES) the need for it to implement in totality provisions in the negotiated conditions of service for the non-teaching staff of the service. The resolution finally pledged its support for the position taken by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) branches of TEWA and University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) in their “principled stand for the adoption of a democratic procedure in the appointment of a vice- chancellor”.
