{"id":320357,"date":"2017-05-18T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=320357"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:23:17","slug":"china-harbour-engineering-workers-protest-poor-working-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/china-harbour-engineering-workers-protest-poor-working-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"China Harbour Engineering workers protest poor working conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers of the China Harbour Engineering Company are demonstrating at the forecourt of the harbour expansion project site at Tema Community Three.<\/p>\n<p>The about-500 workers are demanding better conditions of service.<\/p>\n<p>They are also calling for the abrogation of the recruitment contract between the company and L&#8217;aine services, because of what they say are huge deductions on their salaries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-320356\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-10.jpg\" alt=\"china-harbour-engineering-co-10\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-320355\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-9.jpg\" alt=\"china-harbour-engineering-co-9\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are cheating us a lot,&#8221; one of the workers said, adding he has not received any risk allowance for the work he does wich carries some risk to his life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been working for six months, getting to seven months, and up till now, I have not seen anything reflecting in my salary&#8230; we leave here very late but we don&#8217;t see any good from our work. That is why we are demonstrating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-320354\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-8.jpg\" alt=\"china-harbour-engineering-co-8\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-320351\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/China-Harbour-Engineering-Co-5.jpg\" alt=\"china-harbour-engineering-co-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another of the workers said they were promised GHc 850 as salaries but &#8220;when the month ended, they didn&#8217;t give us the actual money that they promised to give us. They came and gave us GHc 500. 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