The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed workers of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) to suspend their ongoing strike action.
The workers of GPHA declared a strike action on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, over the implementation of the National Roads Authority Act, 2024 (Act 1118).
According to the workers, the Act, which seeks to merge the GHA with the Department of Urban Roads and the Department of Feeder Roads, would reduce the Authority’s autonomy and increase bureaucratic inefficiency.
The workers are also demanding the removal of two officials at the GPHA in the persons of Ing. I.K. Mensah, the Chairman of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) Board, and Ing. Collins B. Donkor, the Chief Executive Officer of the NRA.
They accused them of engaging in acts that are a threat to the road sector.
But the NLC, in a letter, asked the workers to call for the ongoing strike action while negotiations continued.
The NLC disclosed that it met both parties in caucus sessions and observed that the respondents (GHA workers) did not follow due process under the Labour Act, 2023 (Act 651) regarding their intended industrial action.
“The respondents—Ghana Highway Authority, Senior Staff Association, and the Divisional Union of Construction and Building Materials Workers Union of GHA (CBMWU-TUC)—are to follow the due process.”
“Whilst waiting for respondents to follow the due process, they must suspend any and/or all intended industrial action.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
