IN a front-page headline story, the Weekly Insight says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has gradually but surely pushed itself into a bind and indications are that the turbulence on the labour front could force the NDC government out of office.
According to the paper, currently. all the major labour movements in Ghana are engaged in a tussle with the government over pay levels and improvements in the conditions of service of their members.
The paper observes that in a relatively short period of four months, Ghana has recorded at least, four major strikes and there are indications that the trend will continue. It mentioned the junior doctors in the public health institutions as the first to go on strike.
They were almost immediately followed by nurses, then members of the Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) on the campus of the University of Ghana, the paper said, adding that there
Were reports that some members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) ?refused to pick up the chalk?. According to the Weekly Insight, the situation has become so bad that the acting Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), Mr Yaw Donkor, has been directed to do everything possible to avert a full-blown general strike.
