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The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, ICU, has challenged government to reactivate the Pawlugu Tomato and Zuarungu Meat Processing Factories and other industries dotted across the country before establishing new ones. This would create employment for the teeming unemployed youth in the country.
The ICU Deputy General Secretary in Charge of Operations, Morgan Ayawine stated this at the first general meeting of the Upper East Regional Council of the Union in Bolgatanga.
Mr. Ayawine said reactivating abandoned projects will give a boost to government’s flagship programmes like the One District One Factory, One Village One Dam agenda.
The Regional Council meeting meeting is the first since the union’s 10th Quadrennial Delegates Conference held in August 2017 in Kumasi. Mr. Ayawine said if government is keen on arresting the unemployment situation which he described as the number one and notorious enemy of the country, then flagship projects, like One District One Factory, One Village One Dam and One Constituency One Million Dollars should be implemented successfully.
The union also noted that abandoned Agricultural stations at Doba, Bazua, Binduri, Naga and Pusi-Namoo Animal Husbandry should be operational to create more jobs.
The ICU Deputy General Secretary also asked the government to tread cautiously in handling developments in the banking and financial sector. He said measures being introduced to sanitise the sector should not create a situation for people to resort to panic withdrawals of their investments from the very institutions that form the basis of the engine of growth and development of the economy.
Mr. Ayawine was happy that the Bolgatanga meeting was organised at the backdrop of developments which have direct impact on the socio-economic well being of workers in the formal and informal sectors.
He said the ICU leadership will continue to demonstrate commitment not only to ensure the sustenance of quality services to members, but also to step up membership recruitment drive that would afford Ghanaian workers the opportunity to join the Union for better services.
Mr. Ayawine asked workers to appreciate the importance of the social partnership that exists between Employers and employees whose collective responsibilities impact on increased productivity at the workplace. He therefore charged Employers to regard their employees as partners in development that would inure to the mutual benefit of both parties.
The employers must therefore avoid the era of master-servant relationship with workers and rather create an enabling environment where workers would have a sense of belongingness and ownership of the business. This is the right way to do business in an era of unbridled market competition.
The ICU Deputy General Secretary stressed that Ghana’s relationship with the IMF after the end of the Fund’s conditionalities and loans by December 2018 should create better opportunities for Ghanaian workers and the economy in general.

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