This follows a meeting on Friday between the Board of Directors, management of the New Times Corporation, and the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, which represented the workers.

[contextly_sidebar id=”GNLirJHhPoLrySEuf8zp5x67MpuE8Vlk”]Workers of New Times Corporation, responsible for the circulation of the Ghanaian Times Newspaper, on Monday embarked on a demonstration to protest what they described as poor working conditions.

The aggrieved workers were also calling for the immediate removal of their Managing Director, Carol Annang.

But in a statement following the meeting, endorsed by the New Times Corporation Board and the ICU, the two parties had agreed “that the issues culminating in the upheaval should be amicably settled by due process.”

“By this arrangement, normalcy is expected to return to the New Times Corporation immediately,” the statement added.

The ICU, in particular, has been charged to take steps “to ensure that sanity prevails on the premises of New Times Corporation.”

The Board and Management are to also “ensure that the concerns of the workers are fully addressed through due process.”

“No worker should be victimized as a result of the strike,” the statement concluded.

The workers had gone as far as preventing the management of the corporation from entering the office premises.

It took the intervention of the Ghana Police to finally allow the workers to lessen their resolve to keep the management out of the premises.

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This decision was taken after the Police CID met with the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the management of the state-owned media house.

[contextly_sidebar id=”fivxjEQNW4yY3DdzPYqCskaFbkggBGOP”]Workers of New Times Corporation, responsible for the circulation of the Ghanaian Times Newspaper, on Monday embarked on a demonstration to protest what they termed as their poor working conditions.

The aggrieved workers were also calling for the immediate removal of their Managing Director, Carol Annang.

Per the police intervention, the Managing Director and the other management members who were earlier denied entry into their offices will now be able to use their offices.

However, representatives of ICU have assured the workers that the decision does not bring an end to their protest.

Meanwhile, the Police and leadership of ICU are expected to address workers of the New Times Corporation on Friday.

The Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation had described the protests as unfortunate and unwarranted, as it was already engaging workers through their union representatives to find solutions to their concerns.

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), urged the management of the New Times Corporation to meet the workers halfway and grant some of their easy to address demands.

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Speaking on Eyewitness News, he said the “management also has a responsibility to address the low-hanging fruit like promotions, like the investment of their providence fund.”

[contextly_sidebar id=”NanYtUcYn0DJioTo7XYPhAu4lqUVE0V1”]Workers of the New Times Corporation on Monday embarked on a demonstration to protest what they termed as poor working conditions.

The Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation, however described the protest as unfortunate and unwarranted as it was already engaging workers through their union representatives to find solutions their concerns.

“When we heard that the workers had laid down their tools, we dashed to the Times Corporation to solidarize with the workers to assure them that we stand by them and that we will also ensure that what is due them is given them,” Mr. Monney said.

He described the protest as a blow, given that the corporation is trying to turn around its fortunes after well-documented struggles.

Concerns abound that the workers of state corporations agitating against their management may be the problem in their respective organisations because their concerns transcend different management regimes, like instances at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in recent times.

Mr. Monney said such points were “valid” but the immediate concern of the GJA was to ensure that Ghanaian Times newspaper was up and running.

“We don’t want to go into the nitty-gritties of what is happening there. Our main concern is for workers to get back to work and we have succeeded in persuading them that they will worsen their plight if they continue to lay down their tools and they reasoned with us.”

He stressed that it was the collective responsibility of both management and staff to come to a resolution.

“Our urgent appeal to both management and staff is to go back to the negotiation table and look at areas that they can easily address like promotions. How much does it take to address the issue of promotion?.”

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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