Government must submit to domestic pressures -TUC

Mr. Kwasi Adu-Amankwaa, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Friday said it would be a credit to the government to respond to domestic pressures than to yield to those of international financial institutions.

"The government would perform better to respond to the demands of workers than to attribute political motives to our genuine and legitimate demands like the End-of-Service Benefit (ESB), he told a meeting of the Brong Ahafo Regional Council of Labour.

The one-day meeting reviewed the activities of the Council and dilated on other national issues that affect the wellbeing of workers.

Mr. Adu-Amankwaa emphasised that a major role of any democratically-elected government was to mediate between competing interests and pressures of different segments of its population.

The TUC boss, however, pledged the support of the workers to enable the government to plug leakages in its revenue generation system to help meet the demands of workers for better conditions of service.

That would be possible, if the government is able to identify where the leakages are, since it has the machinery to do so, he added.

Mr. Albright Opoku-Kyeremeh, regional chairman of the Council advised workers to study more about their rights and responsibilities to know and understand issues and policies that affected their socio-economic lives.