Organized Labour has given government a one-week ultimatum to withdraw recent levies on petroleum products or face series of nationwide actions.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is also demanding a reduction in utility tariffs that came into force in December last year.
“Organized Labour gives government up to the close of day (18hrs GMT) on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 to meet these demands. If these demands are not me, Organized Labour would unleash series of nationwide actions,” said a releaseThursday.
The release was issued after a meeting by the labour unions Thursday to deliberate on the recent spate of increases in utility tariffs, taxes and levies on incomes and petroleum products.
“The meeting decried the lazy recourse to taxation and its attendant economic and social hardships on the already overburdened Ghanaian by government,” said the release signed by nine labour organizations and the TUC General Secretary, Kofi Asamoah.
Nationwide action organized Labour intends to take to drive home their demands include demonstrations and picketing at the national capital as well as all regional capitals.
The labour unions say they would embark on a two-day nationwide strike from January 21, 2016 if government fails to meet their demands by that time.
Organized Labour says its position is that the recent utility tariffs and petroleum price increases “are reckless and a display of the insensitivity on the part of mangers of the economy to the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
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