Sack labour commission boss – ICU demands

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has released an official statement challenging the government’s appointee as the new Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Ofosu Asamoah former MP for Kade.

The General Secretary of the ICU, Mr. Solomon Kotei told journalists in Accra that the letter that supposedly was meant to appoint Mr. Asamoah did not emphatically state so.

According to him, it has always been the case that the Executive Secretary appointees go through a vetting process at the hands of the Commission.

Executive Secretary of the National Labour Commission (NLC), Ofosu Asamoah

The current Executive Secretary Charles Adongo Bawa Duah had to go through an interview at the Public Service Commission before his appointment was certified, he added.
Mr. Kotei said it was not good for the reputation of labour commission to be headed by a politician.

“We are organizing ourselves this morning and tomorrow, to get over to the appointment authority and then raise our concerns and see how they will resolve the matter,” Kotei added.

However, the General Secretary of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Mr. Abraham Koomson was nonchalant about the raised by the ICU.
Koomson said the priority of the union should be securing employment opportunities for jobless people and stabilizing the industrial sector of the nation.