The hot air that was blowing in Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is giving way for cold air following an agreement that was reached on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, between the workers and management.
The staff of TOR had been up in arms with the Francis Boateng-led management and the Board for failing to address their grievances, thus, creating tension at the refinery.
However, there was hope for the workers on Wednesday, when management finally agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), setting out roadmap to resolve their grievances.
The workers accused their management of increasing their (management) allowances since April this year but failed to increase the allowances for the workers.
The explanation by management was that the Coronavirus pandemic had impacted on the operations of the company and urged the workers to bear with them.
This did not appease the workers who insisted that management increased their allowances since they had increased theirs.
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Energynewsafrica.com understands the workers drafted a proposal which gave management the option to increase the allowances while salary increment would be done by the first quarter of 2021.
According to sources, management was hesitant in signing the agreement but the workers succeeded in getting management to succumb to their demands when they stormed the Board Meeting and insisted that they signed the agreement before the meeting could proceed.
Energynewsafrica.com’s sources indicated that Mr. Daniel Appiah, General Manager for Finance, signed the MoU on behalf of management while Maame Serwah initialed for the workers, with Mr. Alhaji Fuseinu Iddrisu, General Secretary of General Transport Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union, witnessing it.
Source: www.energynewsafrica.com