Prioritise support to struggling industries not one-district one-factory policy – Koomson

The Ghana Federation of Labour has urged government as a matter of urgency to quickly put in measures to save the few jobs left in the textiles industry as Ghana joins the rest of the world to celebrate workers today.

According to the Federation, the textile industry had more than 23,000 workers in the 1970s but now has a staff strength of about 1,500.

The General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson fears the current workers may be redundant soon if government fails stop the piracy of locally manufactured textiles.

He wants the revival of the textiles industries prioritized over the one-district one factory policy that the government is set to implement.

“I’ve worked in the textile industry for 40 years now, in the 70s, we used to about 25,000 workers at the time, but as I speak now, the workers remaining in the industry is less than 2000. So support should go to existing industries that are struggling to survive than going into another venture that we don’t even know the product that are going to come out of them.”

Mr Koomson is calling on the Trade and Industry Ministry to revive the task force set up by the previous government to crackdown on persons trading in fake prints.