{"id":79214,"date":"2015-01-04T11:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79214"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:18:46","slug":"modec-brouhaha-general-transport-union-threatens-another-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/modec-brouhaha-general-transport-union-threatens-another-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"MODEC brouhaha: Workers threatening another strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The General Transport and Chemical Workers Union of Ghana is threatening an industrial action against MODEC,\u00a0a private company working on Ghana\u2019s FPSO vessel on the Jubilee oil field\u00a0for failing to ensure its members who embarked on a strike last year are fully reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chairman of the Union, Francis Sallah, said the strike by all its member unions \u201cwill be in solidarity with the sacked workers of MODEC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cmanagement of MODEC are failing to abide by their side of the bargain to get the workers that were dismissed for demonstrating over better conditions of service on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah back to offshore to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YMYQ2xYeRKkFv22CLBsKfhEgBCtg0Wgo&#8221;]Mr. Sallah revealed that the company has &#8220;replaced the sacked MODEC workers with Vietnamese and South Africans and is paying them huge salaries, 4 times what they were of our Ghanaians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though MODEC asked the dismissed workers to resume work by December , 15, 2014, it[ MODEC] had not taken any further step to reinstate the workers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sallah added that \u201cwe have served letters to management of MODEC drawing their attention to it but they only promised to get back to us as they are on holidays since 26th December\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the union is threatening another strike action saying \u201call relevant agencies have been served the letters and from Monday if management fails to begin getting the workers offshore, steps will be taken to activate our branches for a solidarity action.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 Ghanaian MODEC workers on October 29, 2014 embarked on an industrial action to protest poor working conditions and remunerations.<\/p>\n<p>The management of MODEC, \u00a0later terminated the a<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/11\/modec-sacks-striking-ghanaian-fpso-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>ppointment of 27 of the local workers.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All efforts by the Petroleum Commission to resolve the impasse proved futile which forced MODEC to drag the workers before <strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">t<a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/14\/modec-drags-striking-workers-nlc\/\" target=\"_blank\">he National Labour Commission (NLC).<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, 12 local workers of MODEC withdrew their services in solidarity to their dismissed colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian workers in the petroleum sector in 2014 also began a solidarity <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/17\/more-petroleum-workers-to-join-modec-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>strike to demand the reinstatement<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>of the dismissed MODEC workers.<\/p>\n<p>It included the workers of the Petroleum Tankers Union, the West African Gas Pipeline Company limited (WAPCo), Bulk Oil Storage &amp; Transportation Co. Ltd. (BOST), Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and also had the backing of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Transport and Chemical Workers Union of Ghana is threatening an industrial action against MODEC,\u00a0a private company working on Ghana\u2019s FPSO vessel on the Jubilee oil field\u00a0for failing to ensure its members who embarked on a strike last year are fully reinstated. 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