Highway Workers Embark On "Aluta"

Workers of the Ghana Highway Authority have started a nationwide demonstration to draw management’s attention to the delayed negotiation for salary adjustments. The workers say their salaries have not been adjusted since December last year despite increases in minimum wage and salaries of civil and public servants.

The workers’ action which started on Friday is continuing on Monday. National Chairman of the Ghana Highways Workers Union, John Anafo says the workers’ action seems to have yielded some results because a meeting has finally been scheduled with management for the long drawn out negotiations.

Workers of the Ghana Highways Authority fall under the Construction and Building Material Workers Union of the TUC, which gives them the authority to independently bargain for their salaries.

But Mr Anafo says for quite sometime now, they have been lumped up with civil servants instead of being allowed to negotiate their own salaries and conditions of service.