Ghana Labor Unions Calls Off Strike
Ghana Daily Graphic
The 12 labour unions which embarked on strike over the management of their tier two pension funds have called off the nearly two-week old strike.
This follows a court order secured by the government which ordered them to return to work
The unions had vowed last Friday to continue with the strike, claiming that they had not been served with the court order.
But at a press briefing Tuesday, the Forum for Public Sector Registered Occupational Pension Schemes said they would comply with the court order.
“We are law abiding citizens and have decided to obey the court order from today. But we want to re-emphasize that the suspension of the strike does not mark the end of the struggle,” PRO of the Forum, Reynolds Ofosu Tenkorang said.
The Forum however stated that it “regrets government’s exercise of bad faith in obtaining an ex parte order on the Forum which was in the public domain and generating media speculations and malicious press statements but was not served on the unions and associations until about 5pm on Monday.”
The unions, however, vowed to resume the strike in a week’s time if the dispute was still not resolved.
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The 12 labour unions which embarked on strike over the management of their tier two pension funds have called off the nearly two-week old strike.
This follows a court order secured by the government which ordered them to return to work
The unions had vowed last Friday to continue with the strike, claiming that they had not been served with the court order.
But at a press briefing Tuesday, the Forum for Public Sector Registered Occupational Pension Schemes said they would comply with the court order.
“We are law abiding citizens and have decided to obey the court order from today. But we want to re-emphasize that the suspension of the strike does not mark the end of the struggle,” PRO of the Forum, Reynolds Ofosu Tenkorang said.
The Forum however stated that it “regrets government’s exercise of bad faith in obtaining an ex parte order on the Forum which was in the public domain and generating media speculations and malicious press statements but was not served on the unions and associations until about 5pm on Monday.”
The unions, however, vowed to resume the strike in a week’s time if the dispute was still not resolved.
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