Workers Must Fight Unfair Economic Order - Gawu

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Tuesday said workers have the responsibility to fight against unfair trade relations between the rich North and the poor South for a global economic arrangement to ensure that labour realised its full potential.

It said that could be achieved through the organisation of all workers into trade unions, especially workers in the informal economy.

A statement Mr Samuel Kangah, General Secretary of General Agricultural Workers' Union (GAWU) of TUC, issued as a prelude to this year's May Day Celebration said: "We are in an era where investors/business interest seems to be placed above the rights of working people including vulnerable people in the rural communities.

The statement called on workers to build a virile union to champion the rights of workers.

It said the labour movement was being challenged to address the mounting problems of employers making many workers casuals and many more in the informal sector who were not beneficiaries of the gains of the May Day struggles.

This year's May Day is being celebrated on the theme: "Democratic Workers Participation And Improving Incomes; Dividends Of Good Governance.

The statement said GAWU believed that all workers were the same irrespective of where they found themselves and their development goals could be achieved only when Government and Employers developed sensitivity to workers and trade union rights, which were human rights.