{"id":40791,"date":"2014-08-21T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=40791"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:15:46","slug":"golden-tulip-workers-demonstrate-over-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=40791","title":{"rendered":"Golden Tulip workers demonstrate over salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Workers of the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra on Thursday morning staged a demonstration to protest against what they describe as poor working conditions and the non-payment of salaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> Rabiu Alhassan who was at the Hotel said \u201cthe place was quite filled with about three hundred workers of the hotel who were protesting the non-payment of their salaries. They were demanding for salary increases and improved working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the workers revealed that employees and management were expected to negotiate for salary increases two years ago, but \u201cthat did not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rabiu also stated that management of the hotel had failed to respond to concerns raised by employees, adding that they returned to work after they [management] secured a deal with the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi<\/strong> <b>News<\/b>, an employee of the hotel, Mustapha Quansah said the demonstration had become necessary since management had failed to heed to their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d For sometime now we have been having problems with management regarding how the hotel is gradually declining\u2026,\u201dhe said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers of the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra on Thursday morning staged a demonstration to protest against what they describe as poor working conditions and the non-payment of salaries. Citi FM\u2019s Rabiu Alhassan who was at the Hotel said \u201cthe place was quite filled with about three hundred workers of the hotel who were protesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40796,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-40791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40791","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}