Workers urged to develop their skills to guarantee
job security
Koforidua, July 28, Ghanadot/GNA -
Mr Kofi Asamoah, Secretary General of the
Trade Union Congress (TUC), on Tuesday reminded workers that
in view of challenges posed by
globalization there was the need for them to upgrade
their skills to ensure job security.
“If you do not develop your skills and there are technology
changes at
your workplace, you will be the first to go”.
Mr Asamoah was speaking at the opening of a two-day Eastern
Regional
Women’s Leadership Workshop in Koforidua organized by the
TUC in
collaboration with Realizing Rights of the US.
He said the country was going through challenges as a result
of
gobalization and that job security was another challenge
facing workers.
Mr Asamoah said he was not happy about low numbers of women
in
leadership position and TUC as committed to promote women
participation in trade unionism.
He said in that regard the TUC was developing gender policy
to
encourage more women participation in the union.
Mr Asamoah said the TUC had developed strategies to educate
women
that they had important role to play in women emancipation
adding that it was only when they
were in leadership position that they would be able to do
that effectively.
Mr Asamoah spoke of strategies the TUC had adopted to train
more
women in leadership position and said the union had
consciously appointed more women
as Regional Organizers and also created a second
vice-chairperson position for women including the
creation of a Women’s Desk.
Mrs Francisca Borkor-Bortey, Eastern Regional Secretary of
the TUC,
expressed gratitude to the sponsors of the programme and
said the
workshop would accelerate the knowledge of women, especially
on trade unionism and beyond.
GNA
