The National Labour Commission (NLC) has directed management of GCB Bank to recognize the accredited representatives of the Union of Industry, Commerce and Finance Workers (UNICOF) and respect their directive on dues payment in accordance with the labour law.
UNICOF had earlier argued that GCB bank had contravened section 111 of the labour law by not remitting the union and the TUC after deducting membership dues.
[contextly_sidebar id=”5L5b9psHKRH92WtNYrka7Tg6zCTM5ycD”]Hence a strike was scheduled for next week but has since been called off.
Speaking to Citi Business News after the ruling the General Secretary of UNICOF, John Esiape said the union is satisfied with the ruling but will not hesitate to embark on a strike, should management act otherwise.
‘’Once we are satisfied with the ruling, there is no need to embark on strike so effectively, the strike is called off unless management acts otherwise.’’ he said.
GCB Bank has still not commented on the matter, but had earlier in a statement, sighted by Citi Business News and signed by the bank’s Head of Human Resources, Francis Danyi on the 4th of February this year, asked the union to resolve its issues with electing new members following the abortive delegates conference last year.
Per NLC’s latest ruling, the Trades Union Congress and UNICOF have commenced processes to go back and elect new executives.
According to UNICOF’s general secretary, ‘’The Commission has asked management to work with the interim executive and going forward, the Secretary General of the TUC together with the mother union have already started the process to go back to conference which will be very soon.’’
By Lorrencia Nkrumah/citifmonline.com/Ghana