The workers of the State Media Organisation,
Ghanaian Times has demonstrated against the Managing Director (MD) of the
corporation, Carol Annang over poor managing service which has resulted in the
decline in sale of the paper.
According to them, the MD has mismanaged the affairs
of the organisation thus the need for replacement to ensure smooth sale of the
newspapers and effective run of the company.
The demonstration which took place at the premise of New Times Corporation was to ensure there was increment in the salary of staff.
Clad in red, shirt with red arms and hand band, chanting war songs the demonstrators expressed grievances over what they termed as ‘management incompetence’ they said Carol Annang has proved a great level of incompetence in her duty as an MD.
Clad in red, shirt with red arms and hand band, chanting war songs the demonstrators expressed grievances over what they termed as ‘management incompetence’ they said Carol Annang has proved a great level of incompetence in her duty as an MD.
MS. Diana Bosuh, the Chairperson of
Professional Management Staff Union (PMSU) in an interview with the media said the
demonstration was to create awareness and also to ensure that right policies
and measures were put in place to revive the corporation.
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“We are demonstrating today to inform the general
public on the mismanagement of the corporation and ways to work as a theme to
save the corporation from further lost of sale of our papers,” she said.
She noted that GT pay Gh₵17000 per day in the
printing of the papers at Graphic which is costing the organisation huge sums
of money.
Ms. Bosou said the idea of the re-branding of GT was to increase sales but it rather decline the sales adding that good measures which was not put in place by Ms. Annang compelled them to print at the door step of their competitor.
She further stated that the MD has failed all her promises to the workers adding that "workers of the company have not
received salary increment for the past five years thus has rendered them poor."
Ransford Owulei, a staff said the printing machine
was working therefore they could print the GT papers if they use this same
machine to print The Spectator papers.
“The Spectator and Ghanaian Times are within same
corporation, if we can use the machine to print Spectator why not times.”
Answering on how effective the machine was, he said
the printing machine could produce quality papers and could print the papers of
the corporation although sometimes they faced little challenges with it.
The demonstrators however called on necessary
authorities to change their MD to ensure the smooth run of Ghanaian Times.
If your salary has not been increased, that is not an excuse to become poor. we Ghanaians are always relying on our monthly salaries and that, we don't seek for other financial avenues to become financially independent.
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