Are public sector workers justified for wage increase? I think so

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• Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

  On paper public sertor worker wage increases are long overdue but peeling back all layers carefully will reveal results that should put bad tastes in our mouth. The government of Ghana is not a charitable entity living off so ...
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  On paper public sertor worker wage increases are long overdue but peeling back all layers carefully will reveal results that should put bad tastes in our mouth. The government of Ghana is not a charitable entity living off some trust fund; it's self funded through various funding sources one of which is tax revenues and royalties. The big problem that is hidden in plain sight and yet easily missed by all is that the Ghana government is broke as a joke. We can all quibble about what caused or causes the government to go broke but that is neither here nor there. Ghanaians, or should I say Africans, are synonymous to slavery because we have reserved abilities to work hard and dedicated for others for pay or improve our owners lot but never for ourselves or each other as freed people. Africans living, working and or studying outside the African continent go at life hard and seriously but will all say they do so for reasonable pay. But underneath our pay is nothing short of slave labor and yet we go about work religiously working for others.
  Yes we do not earn much on the African continent but it's because we do not work hard, do not use all of our thinking powers to invent and we surely have a bloated public sector work force that reduces productivity to a flatline. How many public sector workers do we know to arrive to work ontime, leave for lunch at designated time and go home on or at mandated time? How many of us are bribery free and beyond reproach? There are relative bribery and corruption elsewhere around the world and yet they do not stop us for giving our all when working for paychecks outside the African continent; so what gives? We will have a right to wage increases when we give to our respective African governments what we give unto other nations for our paychecks.

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