Organised Labour has dismissed accusations that its leadership was financially influenced by the government to call off its planned strike on slated for Thursday, October 10.
The strike was initially intended to protest the government’s perceived inaction in addressing the illegal mining crisis, commonly known as galamsey.
Following the decision to cancel the strike, several critics alleged that Organised Labour had been bribed to back down.
However, King Ali Awudu, president of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) and a member of Organised Labour, firmly rejected these claims, describing them as baseless.
He emphasised that Organised Labour’s involvement had yielded results, leading the government to take steps towards taking some decisive actions.
“Whenever somebody is of a certain opinion, and another has a dissenting opinion the easy thing some people in this country would do is to accuse you of going to A or B. But mind you, so many organisations in this country have threatened to do certain things about galamsey but the government never mind them, including the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“Since December 2023, they have issued notices to the government to revoke the LI that allows mining in forest reserves, but the government has never minded them.
“Organised Labour comes in and in less than a month, the government has issued the directives for the LI to be revoked. This is what we want. It is being achieved. Why do we go on strike?” he asked.
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