The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has assured Ghanaian workers that the next NDC administration will work to complete the processes already begun to review and bridge the remuneration and entitlement of public sector workers and Article 71 office holders.
Speaking at a consultative meeting with the leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Kasoa on Wednesday, the former President said the review and establishment of an Independent Emoluments Commission will ensure fairness in remunerations and compensation.
Mr. Mahama noted that the establishment of the Commission was one of the recommendations of the Constitution Review Commission and intended among others to create a fair salary structure for all categories of public sector workers.
“There are other things in there . . . amend article 71 and set up an Independent Emolument Commission so that from the President right down to the smallest public sector worker, we will have a fair scale to address everybody. It is a commitment that we can make because it was us who superintended over it, so when we come we will continue the process.”
President Mahama, who was accompanied to the meeting by the NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia, a former Vice Chancellor of the UPSA Professor Joshua Alabi, a former Minister for Education Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang and other party functionaries, said the NDC and the TUC are age-old social partners who share the same ideologies.
“These ideologies are aligned and in consonance with the spirit to fight for the rights of workers,” he noted, adding that as a social Democratic Party, the NDC will continue to focus on putting in place safety nets to cater for both the poor and vulnerable while allowing the market economy, including Ghanaian-owned businesses, to flourish.
President Mahama also condemned the Akufo-Addo led government for using the National Communications Authority to muzzle media houses it considered sympathetic to the NDC. He described the decision of the NCA to close down some radio stations as an affront to freedom of speech and expression.
Mr. Mahama reminded the TUC of the incidents that characterised the infamous Ayawaso West Wuogun by-election and challenged them as stakeholders in the democratic journey, to join in ensuring that the 2020 elections are conducted peacefully and in a transparent manner.
He called on the Electoral Commission to respect the processes including the role of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), noting that Ghana has created a niche for itself in the comity of nations as a model of electoral success in Africa.
General Secretary of the TUC, Dr. Anthony Yaw Baah, in recalling President Mahama’s relationship with the TUC extolled his leadership qualities, referring to him as “a true human being, a man of peace, tolerance and humility”.
“If Prof. Mills was Asomdweehene I, then John Mahama is Asomdweehene II . . . peace is the greatest legacy any leader can bequeath to a nation,” he stated.
The TUC meeting is part of a series of ongoing engagements and consultations with identifiable groups and key stakeholders ahead of the drafting of the party’s manifesto for the 2020 elections.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Talk is cheap.... This is a bogus promise. Tell us exactly how you will do it.
IF ONLY AND ONLY IF the former president has now realized the cheating of the "HARDWORKING BUT POOR CIVIL SERVANTS" who work for the politicians to enjoy then it is a great GOOD NEWS. Fellow Ghanaians, we are in this country (GHANA when civil servants are paid GH¢500 minimum and GH¢2,500 maximum monthly and are tagged to be the "BURDEN ON THE ECONOMY" but the politicians who reaped from the toil of the civil servants and received GH¢15,000 minimum and over GH¢25,000 maximum monthly are not the BURDEN ON THE ECONOMY. In the same vain CIVIL SERVANTS work for over 30 years, retired and receive a paltry lump sum of GH¢30,000 whilst the POLITICIANS luxuriate in the political field for 4 years and collect over GH500,000.00 as ex- Gratia. THIS IS THE POISON CIVIL SERVANTS, TEACHERS, NURSES, DOCTORS ETC, are drinking in GHANA. POLITICIANS never make any POLICY to favour masses but for themselves. They fight in parliament for their salaries in unison but they don't talk about the masses. Are we not having the same human BLOOD? A time will come and nobody will come out to vote in this country. We will all use the code "EACH ONE FOR HIMSELF AND GOD FOR US ALL" THANK YOU
Cheap talk. Mr Ex, kindly give us exacly how you are going to do this and time frame. we are tired of political lies. Anyway, Nana is copying your evils and id-iotic syle of governance and even worse so, I will change him and vote for you not because you have convinced me but becasue, Nana is more id.i0tic than you are.
Hahahahahah! Mouth market. You never increased workers salary by a dime % throughout your regime as a President but now listen to your self. Are you going to abolish Article 71 Office holders, they are going to mark time as workers salaries are increased or what?. Be specific! tell us exactly what you will do. If you give workers 10% and Article 71 office holders 5% theoretically you have bridged the gab, but practically you have not done anything. Because Article 71 holder 5% salary increase will be the take home pay of an officer on the regular salary scale. So please no generalisation, tell us the how, and the effect of such increase as a percentage of tax revenue. I am patiently waiting for your response pls.
AH! MR MAHAMA, YOU NOW REALIZED THERE IS A GAP TO BRIDGE. WHERE WAS THE GAP WHEN IN YOU TIME YOU INCREASED YOUR SALARY AND BACKDATED IT TO 2009? TALK IS CHEAP.
Great wise folks of the past said and it is true even today that "had I known is always at last" Mahama. if your last defeat did not teach you a humble lesson, then wait and see what your next heaviest fall will hand over to you to learn but in hard way forever. Go learn what this means..."Ekyem mereye wo sei na maye wo sei, na m'agyaa wo ato fom sei ara epuu!" Your fatal crumble is next.
This Kanazoe bribe man Mahama is very desperate..... Remember it was your corrupt P(NDC) party that cancelled the end of service benefit for workers and introduce this cr!minal article 71 thi.e.very.. Who is listeni9ng to this ananse story?
What has changed about you JM, ***barred word***, have you come alive. We can still remember what you did to us, DUMSOR, GUINEA FOWL TO BURKINA, BUS BRANDING, Inflated price of the presidential jet, John Ford mentioned big few
This criminal called Mahama who has sold every contract to their criminal European Partners and he has the nerve to stand in front of Ghanaians to talk to. A ***barred word*** who stole our money and invested in dubai buying houses, yacht and they have the boldness to talk to Ghanaians. Criminal European Embassies in Ghana partnering Mahama to create, loot and share among themselves. These Embassies were stealing contracts with between 60 - 90% shares in ports contracts, mining, IT etc. and they have made us soo poor. Foreigners are making huge money in Ghana and repatriating the money out hence the pressure on the cedi. This NDC sold almost everything out to foreigners and I'm surprised NPP are not exposing the criminal activities for Ghanaians to know how the economy has been hijacked by greedy these European companies. ***barred word*** and a criminal man like Mahama should be stripped of his Ghanaian passport because he does not deserve it.
Oh massa does everything about you has to do with bribing people? You now want to bribe Ghanaian workers? Since when did you realized the disparity. Hmmm Ghana Ghanaian politicians. Making politics, politricks. Only Time will tell