Workers Demand Better Conditions
HUNDREDS OF placard-carrying workers in the Western Region took part in a workers’ rally at the Takoradi Jubilee Park to mark May Day, with messages calling on government and captains of industries to improve on their working conditions. As early as 8am on Sunday, bus loads of workers from all over the region arrived at the Jubilee Park and took their positions, with workers clad in T-shirts marching with their organizations’ colours. Not even the early morning heat could dampen the enthusiasm of the workers as some of them danced to brass band music. The brigade band of the Freeman Methodist Church in Kwesimintsim near Takoradi was on hand to provide music for the march past. The high point of the day was the march past, in which the workers’ groups, which included the Public Services Workers Union, Public Utility Workers Union, Communications Workers Union, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, Civil Servants Association, among others, filed past the dais with the Regional Ministe