NLC sabotaging our case - Antrak Air staff

Aggrieved workers of domestic airline Antrak Air have accused the National Labour Commission (NLC) of allowing the internal power struggle at the commission to unduly delay the delivery of justice on their petition against management of the airline.

The group, numbering over 40, petitioned the commission regarding their salaries and other entitlements they say is owed them by Antrak Air Company since 2015.

They claim management asked them to go home for a period of three months to undertake some restructuring in 2015, after which they would be called back, but they have still not received any call.

However, they claim that the stalemate between staff of the NLC and their Executive Secretary, Charles Adongo Bawa Duah, in which the staff is calling for the head of their boss, was unduly delaying justice on their case.

The spokesperson of the aggrieved workers, Samuel Nyamedor, told Class Business he and his colleagues suspected foul play on the part of the Labour Commission.

“The Labour Commission is delaying us. I don’t know whether they are trying to sabotage the case, I don’t know. I can’t really tell… It sounds funny and from the way the workers are even complaining that he (Adongo Bawa Duah) is an NDC man and now NPP is in power so they are attempting to remove him from office… I have written applications all across and there hasn’t been any [feedback] so I’m still unemployed and searching and so I was thinking if I should get this money I could even start something on my own,” he bemoaned.