ADVERTISEMENT
Former VRA boss against ECG staff threat to cause nationwide 'dumsor'
ECG workers claim the deal will not be in the interest of the workers and may eventually lead to loss of jobs, at least after five years.
___5419336___https:______static.pulse.com.gh___webservice___escenic___binary___5419336___2016___8___25___14___b233d972ada3f6b911297ef40b012c8a_XL
Recommended articles
Aggrieved workers of ECG begun a three-day; three-hour sit down strike across the country to protest the impending privatization of the Electricity Company of Ghana to a private concessionaire.
Read more: ECG staff warned over nationwide dumsor
They claim the deal will not be in the interest of the workers and may eventually lead to loss of jobs, at least after five years.
ADVERTISEMENT
But Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby said “I disagree with the ECG workers and I am not in favour of the agreement between government and the American Company. Government has employed them so they don’t have the right to say they will shut power for the whole nation or you will not work as a result of the government’s decision to privatize the ECG”.
He said “a worker does not have the right to say they will stop work and will put out light but if they do what they threatened to do, it will amount to sabotage and breach of contract between the government and the employee”.
Speaking on Accra-based Onua FM, he said, "If you want to protect your work that is natural but you can’t say you are dictating to the one who employed you so everyone who will sabotage the ECG should be sacked."
The Public Utilities Workers Union (PUWU), spearheading the protest has called on government to review the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact which seeks to relinquish the ECG to private investors for 25 years.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Trades Union Congress (TUC), has also reportedly thrown its weight behind PUWU indicating that dialogue between the unions and the government is yielding no fruits.
The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) is among others, asking government to review the MCC Compact and modify the private sector participation to include pragmatic steps to bring efficiency to ECG.
JOIN OUR PULSE COMMUNITY!
ADVERTISEMENT
Eyewitness? Submit your stories now via social or:
Email: eyewitness@pulse.com.gh
Recommended articles
Train accident photo posted on my social media pages is a photoshop - Peter Amewu
Court jails truck driver 6 months for causing Ghana's brand-new train accident
609 Ghanaians died in first 3 months of 2024 through road crashes - NRSA reveals
Stay in your parents' house while you do your NSS - Sammy Gyamfi advises graduates
Joseph Addo files nomination to contest as NPP Parliamentary aspirant for La Dadekotopon
Dumsor: ECG board members reject PURC GH¢5.8m fine
Woman who claims to have been taken to another world by dwarfs shares experience
Organised Labour threatens to strike May 2 over Tier-2 pension arrears
