The National Labour Commission (NLC) says it has initiated legal action against the ongoing strike by workers of the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA).
This move comes after the GHA workers began an indefinite strike on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, in protest against the implementation of the National Roads Authority Act, 2024 (Act 1118).
The NLC, in an earlier statement on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, emphasised that the strike action did not follow the required legal procedures as stipulated under the Labour Act, 2023 (Act 651) and therefore directed the workers to suspend the strike and follow the due process.
But Executive Secretary of NLC, Ofosu Asamoah, told Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News on Citi FM on Tuesday that the commission had started legal action against the workers’ strike because they had defied the commission’s earlier directive of following due process.
“They did not follow the due process the law provides for that you should give the labour commission at least seven days’ notice, two notices to the commission and then to your employers and in their case even when it comes to the declaration of strike it is done by the national union and not a divisional union.
“So in both cases they were wrong and you know earlier before the strike could take place the Ministry had petitioned the commission and they were summoned before the commission.
“We have initiated (legal action) it already. We are yet to be called. But in any case, if they decide to go back we will have to halt the court action and I think that it will be in their interest and the interest of all Ghanaians that once they have admitted before the commission that they had not followed the due process we expect them to respect our directive,” Asamoah stated.
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