General News of Tuesday, 15 October 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgMergers are at the core of union existence now - Adu AmankwahKwasi Adu Amankwah, General Secretary of ITUC AfricaKwasi Adu Amankwah, General Secretary, African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC Africa), has said that there is the need for trade unions to merge to be able to play their roles as consolidation is core to the existence of unions. Mr Adu Amankwah said this at a day’s forum organised by the Trades Union Congress in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, on mergers in trade unions in Accra. He said when unions emerged in Ghana, they were referred to as house or local unions, but when they recognised the need for a stronger union, national unions came up, so different house unions came together to form national unions. Mr Adu Amankwah said the world of work was rapidly changing and the number of gains that workers had before were now eroded as they had become weaker. “Several factors can shape union mergers, the size of the union, the challenges it is facing from membership, its influence or its financial conditions.

Source: GhanaWeb October 15, 2019 02:03 UTC