{"id":113718,"date":"2015-05-04T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=113718"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:01:33","slug":"ineffective-leadership-cause-of-economic-woes-icu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/ineffective-leadership-cause-of-economic-woes-icu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ineffective leadership cause of economic woes &#8211; ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) is blaming Ghana\u2019s economic woes on persons it refers to as square pegs in round holes occupying leadership positions in government.<\/p>\n<p>The union members are currently bearing the brunt of the erratic power supply as they risk losing their job.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;QIEyoV8dc4LHmKzWskIObxDvg0xzu5y7&#8243;]ICU has already warned that about 3000 unionized workers are expected to lose their jobs by September if the power situation is not fixed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the trend is anything to go by, we are looking at about 2,000 to over 3,000 job losses within this year from our sector alone but we don\u2019t know about others,\u201d said the Secretary General of ICU, Solomon Kotei.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/16\/over-500-lose-jobs-over-dumsor-icu\/#sthash.48NrOojz.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Over 500 jobs<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>have already been lost between January and March 2015, due to the ailing economy and\u00a0the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the President of ICU Eliazer Nyaunu said most people running the affairs of government have no business being there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see employers, we see Ministers who come into office virtually without any working experience at all. 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