EDITORIAL: Ghana Airways Staff Suffer Salary Cuts

There is gnashing of teeth at Ghana Airways! The sins of the fathers are being visited on the children.
After years of rape and mismanagement of the national carrier, staff of the airline have been informed that they will have to forgo 30% of their salaries and in addition to that, cabin attendants will also lose up to 40% of their per diem. The only other option is to retain current figures and sack a lot of workers.
Ghana Airways has been in turbulence ever since the airline became over politicised by the PNDC/NDC.
The once proud and vibrant airline is now a pale shadow of its past and inured in debt as well as other ills brought about by internal and external sabotage.
Though the staff of the airline seem resigned to their fate of reduced income, they are also grousing that, "some of the people responsible for our woes" are still roaming about free and even have been given top posts in the current exercise of re-organisation.
Ghana Airways has suffered from dubious management strategies which at best could be described as bad judgement and at worst negligence. The charge of negligence has been levelled especially against the management headed by the former Chief Executive, Mr. E.L. Quartey Jnr. who some of the staff accuse of fiddling while his airline floundered.
As is usual in such harsh corporate realities there's much finger pointing and in this case, names like Fred Taylor, Adu Gyamfi, and Captain Paul Fojoe, in addition to the former Chief Executive are wagging on tongues around the corporation. These names may or may not have anything to do with the dwindled fortunes of the airline but certainly the buck must stop somewhere.
The Accra Mail is informed that members of the Senior Staff Association have presented a long list of grievances to the new management and the minister responsible for the sector.
Reduction in salary at the best of times is no joke but a time when workers have to reckon with increased fuel costs and hikes in tariffs, a loss of 30% in salaries is serious. That's the more reason why the workers are with justification asking for "zero tolerance" to zero in on the causes of the airline's current impecunious status.