TUC initiates moves to engage all political parties

THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) has initiated moves to engage all political parties to ensure that their manifestos incorporate the concerns and aspirations of the working people of Ghana.
"We want their manifestos to contain issues that we have been advocating - such as job creation, fair and living wages and salaries, conducive labour environment and all that working people look to from their political parties. It will also help in the rules of engagement when they come to power," it said.
The acting Secretary General of the TUC, Mr Kofi Asamoah, disclosed this when the flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, interacted with the Steering Committee of the congress in Accra on Wednesday.
"We don't want them to finalise their manifestos; we are interested in engaging them to know what they have for the working people - how they want to manage the economy such that it will bring about social and economic well-being," he said.
According to him, another move, which was aimed at boosting the congress' contribution to deepening democracy in the country, was to encourage its members to actively participate in things that would ensure that good governance issues were promoted for the realisation of socio-economic well-being of the people.
He said members of the TUC were being encouraged not to be only interested in exercising their franchise, but also in demanding that political parties that formed the government fulfilled the promises they made to the working people when canvassing for votes.
"We need to ensure that politicians live up to their promises. The TUC was committed to consolidating the democratic governance and ensuring free, fair and transparent elections, and also demanding that political leaders fulfilled their campaign promises," the acting secretary general said.
Mr Asamoah said within the course of the year, the TUC would hold its congress, and would thus invite all the presidential aspirants of the various political parties to tell the working people of Ghana what they should expect from them, should they be voted for to come to power.