AS the world last Saturday, May 1, 2010 marked the efforts and the noble contributions of workers towards the development of their various countries, Today would like to seize this opportunity to, once again, wish all workers well and a fruitful working year.
IN commending workers for their exceptional involvement in making the nation a better place for us all, and more importantly, call for better conditions of service, we on this paper believe that it is about time the status-quo shifted from workers taking to the streets to agitate for better remunerations and leave the poor employer in the cold.
Today therefore implores the various working union groups in the country to endeavour to use the day to reflect and brainstorm on how best they could improve upon their services to place the employer in a better position to meet their needs.
Today is not holding breadth for workers neither are we impressing upon workers to abandon their call for a greater part of the national cake, attention should also be given to the working attitudes of workers in the country.
IN borrowing the words of former President Kufuor, ‘Ghanaian workers pretend to be working whiles employers also pretend to be paying them,’ for us we believe that it will be in the interest of the nation if both workers and employers take into consideration what Mr Kufuor said in his last state of the nation address in 2008 and address it accordingly.
IT is an open secret that most Ghanaians workers, particularly those in the public service put up lackadaisical attitude at their various working premises; some report to work late and leave for the house very early with the flimsy excuse of being stuck in traffic on their way to work or will be held up in traffic and get to the house very late if they do not leave early.
THIS, the paper believes, is preposterous and untenable. As workers seek to demand for juicy wages it behooves them to also live up to the expectations of their employers.
IN the light of this, the paper will like to urge employers, especially government to abandon its communist-inferior-tactics by deliberately waiting until workers take to the streets to demonstrate or issue threats of protestation before attending to their problems to desist from such acts.
BESIDES, Today believes that it will be in the interest of the nation if both employers and employees resort to dialogue anytime there is a problem.
LONG live Ghanaian workers, long live employers. Once again we wish all workers Ayeeko.
