Cape Coast, June 11, GNA - The Cape Coast Metropolitan Council of Labour has given a week ultimatum to the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) to reduce the recent increases in utility tariffs. It said the Council rejects the new tariffs and asked PURC to come out with lower and more realistic tariffs. A communiqu=E9 adopted and signed by its chairman and secretary, Mr John Michael Aggrey and Mr Benjamin Brown respectively, the Council said the consultation on the tariff review should start immediately. It said considering the high cost of living in relation to the woefully inadequate 10 percent salary increment recently announced by the

government, the high tariff increases would further worsen the plight of workers and Ghanaians in general. Mr Aggrey said the new tariffs were untimely and unfair because the

new Single Spine Salary Structure, which workers expected would improve their income levels, was yet to be implemented.