{"id":36404,"date":"2014-08-01T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=36404"},"modified":"2014-08-01T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T22:02:04","slug":"blame-tripartite-committee-for-labour-demo-gamey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=36404","title":{"rendered":"Blame Tripartite Committee for labour demo &#8211; Gamey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"bc390824-51c0-4631-9a19-97250eea520e\">labour<\/span> consultant, Austin Gamey has called on the National Tripartite Committee to focus on its mandate and ensure that a nationwide <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"6629c043-121b-4703-a0e0-47568062ee8c\">labour<\/span> protest does not occur again.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"3192c8fc-2ca4-470a-8644-6896e74e58eb\">Organised<\/span> <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"99ab30e4-87d5-4be1-98ee-88a85346a25f\">Labour<\/span>, on July 24, embarked on a nationwide demonstration to protest what they call the poor economic conditions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Various groups and associations, including the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Association joined in the protest a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking to <b>Citi news<\/b>, Austin Gamey said that the protest could have been averted if the Tripartite Committee had focused on the job it was supposed to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no tripartite meeting purposefully called to discuss economic issues of importance to all of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meetings that were called, discussed only the setting up of a national daily minimum wage\u2026 a microcosm of the things that are supposed to be discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the Committee \u201cshould stay focused, in future, on the mandate that has been given to all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gamey however, admitted that some of the issues raised by the protesters were legitimate \u00a0and that the government is working to address them.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201ca Tripartite Committee meeting is being convened to enable them <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"1cb69e9d-6a95-4b7a-88a0-5317551e180d\">talk<\/span> about\u00a0 economic issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gamey believes that \u201cthis is how the parties involved should have engaged [before the protest].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a step in the right direction to address some of the concerns and with the involvement of all of them, that will be a solution, at least in part\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A labour consultant, Austin Gamey has called on the National Tripartite Committee to focus on its mandate and ensure that a nationwide labour protest does not occur again. Organised Labour, on July 24, embarked on a nationwide demonstration to protest what they call the poor economic conditions in the country. Various groups and associations, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1720,1927,17],"class_list":["post-36404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-burkina-faso","tag-caf-player-of-the-year","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}