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Article

8 Jun 2010

Author:
Ghana News Agency

Workers accuse Chinese company of maltreatment [Ghana]

Tension is mounting among the 221 Ghanaian workforce of the China Jiangxi International and Technical Cooperation (CJIC) engaged on the Akatsi-Tadzewu-Dzodze-Akanu road over alleged bad treatment by the Chinese management. The workers accused management of…under payment, failure to provide them with safety gadgets and refusal to pay compensation to workers who died or suffered permanent disabilities on duty…The Company's Chief Accountant...Vincent denied the allegations, alleging that "the TUC [Trade Union Congress] and the Union were introducing bad influence among our workers"...[and that] dismissals were due to thefts.