Star-Kist workers rush to govt

The Ministry of Employment and Manpower Development has acted on SOS calls from workers of star-kist Pioneer Food Cannery (PFC) by setting up a medical committee made up of a private medical practitioner, an Occupational Health Specialist and a Factory Inspector.

They are charged to investigate worker allegations of unsafe work environment that endangers the life expectancy of workers.

Sector Minister Yaw Barima (MP) who disclosed this to the paper, said that the demonstration of the government's commitment to the worker's plight is in the fact that the Committee has been given 10 weeks to conduct factory inspection tours and conduct thorough medical checkups on the workers to determine the truth or otherwise in the allegations.