Don't associate TUC with demonstrations and strikes - Aikins

Kwesimintsim (W/R), Sept. 28, GNA - The public should disabuse their minds of the notion that Trade Unions only organise strikes, demonstrations and workers' agitations.

Mr Joe Boafo Aikins, Principal Industrial Relations Officer of the Timber and Woodworkers Union (TWU) of the TUC, said organised labour has many social responsibilities to ensure harmony and peace not only among workers but also in the society to enhance development.

He was speaking at a presentation of food items, worth more than two million cedis, by Women's Committee of the TWU to patients of the Kwesimintsim Poly Clinic on Saturday.

The items included two bags of rice, sugar, milk, biscuits, oranges, loafs of bread and ceiling brushes.

Mr Aikins said organised labour had not shirked its social responsibility to society, adding that, most of its activities in this area had been done "on the quiet to give that wrong impression in the minds of many people".

Madam Georgina Fletcher, President of the Committee, said the Union is committed to the welfare of the needy and would continue to seek the comfort of such people through similar donations. Dr. Tawiah Siemeh, Medical Officer in-charge of the Clinic, thanked members of the Union for the gesture and called on other organisations to emulate.

Members of the Union later undertook a three-hour cleanup exercise at the Clinic.

They swept, scrubbed, and removed cobwebs at the wards.