Assistant Labour Minister for Trade Union Affairs Rufus Saylee has challenged the newly inducted leadership of the Bea Mountain Mining Company Workers’ Union (BMMCWU) to seek the welfare of their members as a key priority of the administration.
Saylee said over the years, local trade union leaders across the country had compromised the welfare of their workers, only to satisfy the whims of management for purely financial inducements, describing such practice as ‘unwholesome for a viable labour sector’.
A Labour Ministry press release revealed that Assistant Minister Saylee made these assertions recently when he deputized for Labour Minister, Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah, Sr., as “the Induction Officer” of the Bea Mountain Mining Company Workers Union (BMMCWU) at the company’s site in Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County.
Assistant Labour Minister Saylee named several key responsibilities of a true Trade Union leadership, including representation, advocacy, communication, education and accountability, among others, which are crucial in the administrative conduct of trade unions around the world.
The Labour Ministry official called on the BMMCWU inducted leadership to prioritize negotiations, collaboration and monitoring in a bid to gain benefits at all collective bargaining agreements with management.
Earlier, the President of the BMMCWU and General Secretary, Winston Wreh and Macaulay Geedeo, Jr., promised to work in the interest of both management and workers in order to ensure cordial industrial harmony at the company. Officials of the company who attended the program assured their support to the newly inducted workers’ leadership.
