The National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union has declared an indefinite sit-down strike.
The members of the union are demanding improved conditions of service.
The drivers stated that an agreed-upon policy framework aimed at improving their salary and working conditions had not been implemented.
According to them, the farmwork has been on the table of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) board since November 2023.
Efforts to get the framework approved, they say, have proved futile.
The Vice president of the Ghana National Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union, Sunday Alabi, speaking on the issue said: “We wrote a petition to the Presidency last week to have the framework approved but we have not heard anything yet and that is why we are embarking on the sit-down strike because the livelihood of our drivers is so bad.
“Just like the saying goes, ‘electricity no get leg, ebe copper wire wey dey carry am go,’ the petroleum downstream sector does not have leg, it is the tanker drivers that carry it and so we cannot be suffering and the rest will be enjoying and so long as they resist to approve the framework, we will not resume work.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
