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Organised Labour has declared that it will embark on a nationwide strike starting on 10th October for the government’s failure to ban small-scale mining. Organized Labor on September 11 issued a statement demanding that the government ban small-scale mining. A meeting by the ad-hoc interministerial committee failed to address their …

Organized labour has suspended its planned demonstration over the Value Added Tax (VAT) on electricity following the government’s decision to suspend the controversial tax. Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, announced the suspension of the demonstration at a press conference in Accra on Friday, …

Government has succumbed to pressure from Organised Labour by exempting workers’ pensions from the recently launched Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. After a crunch meeting with Organised Labour on Thursday, December 22, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, gave utmost assurances that pensions of all workers will be exempt from the …