FPSO strike: Expats get 800% more pay than Ghanaians - Union

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• ffonky 11 years ago

  This was expected to happened since the goverment refuse to train people in the petroleum industry before entering into business.
  Even how much does the Goverment of Ghana gain from the oil industry- "10%"
  - Our own oil ind ...
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  This was expected to happened since the goverment refuse to train people in the petroleum industry before entering into business.
  Even how much does the Goverment of Ghana gain from the oil industry- "10%"
  - Our own oil indeed.
  Kofi Wayo wasn´st joking!!!

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• christian 11 years ago

  But its better to get 10% of something than the 0% nothing. Oil in the ground is worthless until its extracted just like the gold. You agree on a deal, let the foreign investors come and invest, promiss them low taxes and hig ...
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  But its better to get 10% of something than the 0% nothing. Oil in the ground is worthless until its extracted just like the gold. You agree on a deal, let the foreign investors come and invest, promiss them low taxes and high returns. once you see how much money they make, you feel cheated but dont forget there were no value there before they came and invested billions of dollars! Without these big companies, Ghana would make 0% and the gold and oil would stay in the ground forever... maybe that would have been better.

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• boakye isaac 11 years ago

  we live in a country where we value outsiders more than ourselves.God save us.

  we live in a country where we value outsiders more than ourselves.God save us.

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• Tom Tom 11 years ago

  The writer should give us specific figures or at lest give us salary ranges for both local workers and expatiates so that we can understand the situation better. Expats getting 800% more of what? obviously you are making more ...
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  The writer should give us specific figures or at lest give us salary ranges for both local workers and expatiates so that we can understand the situation better. Expats getting 800% more of what? obviously you are making more money on the FPSO than most of the Ghanaian working population so, if you are not ready to bring out figure for we the suffering Ghanaians to get the true picture of what is happening then do not waste our time.

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• kodi 11 years ago

  I am not against workers agitating for wage increase but sometimes we have to be fair with the expertrates.they have left their families and travelled to Ghana and some of them were paid in dollars in their home countries so ...
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  I am not against workers agitating for wage increase but sometimes we have to be fair with the expertrates.they have left their families and travelled to Ghana and some of them were paid in dollars in their home countries so we should not expect them to receive same since the moneys remmitted to their home countries may be in dollars. Thank you.

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• ama 11 years ago

  They are pay according to standard of living in their countries. People from Japan and Switzerland get more pay then any other countries in the world. Although you are doing the same job. Ghanaian can retire and live on $400. ...
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  They are pay according to standard of living in their countries. People from Japan and Switzerland get more pay then any other countries in the world. Although you are doing the same job. Ghanaian can retire and live on $400.00 a month but can American live on $400.00.a month no please let us reason.

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• Neutral Zone 11 years ago

  The unions don't create jobs. They feed off workers contributions so workers need to watch them carefully n closely.

  The unions don't create jobs. They feed off workers contributions so workers need to watch them carefully n closely.

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