As of May 31, 2006, the Liberia Telecommunication Cooperation (LTC) will cease to exist.

According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, N. Oswald Tweh, government has decided to close down the cooperation due to its inability to generate the needed revenues, adding before this happens, government would be in the position to pay four month salary arrears.

But this statement did no go down well with the workers of the cooperation and they are therefore demanding that government pay all arrears owed them including benefits.

Addressing journalists following their closed- door meeting with the Board of Directors, the President of the LTC's Workers Union, Mr. Isaac Zotoe, said that government has vowed to turn the LTC into a GSM company and by doing so, it has decided to terminate the services of the entire workforce.

"Government is nothing but Continuity; we saw it in the NDPL, NPP regimes, and now, this regime is also bent on practicing the same thing; they want to bring in their partisans onboard," Mr. Zotoe noted.

Speaking further, he said, "when we met in the meeting, they told us that we went on the radio to say that the Board was taking money from the GSM Company that is coming to take over the cooperation, this is why they are sidelining us (the employees) which is true." Mr. Zotoe added.

Mr. Zotoe said that the GSM Company marginalized Tele-Com and "we know the politics that is going on," he averred.

He said that since the Ellen led-government, they have not been paid since May, noting that the treatment was unacceptable to them.

Mr. Zotoe further told his colleagues that after the meeting with the Board as a representative of the Workers Union, he would ensure that the government treat them with satisfaction.

The aggrieved workers termed the request made by the Government for them to accept the payment for four months salaries without benefits attached as mere mockery and humiliation.

Meanwhile, Cllr. Tweh, yesterday went back to the Executive Mansion to inform President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf about the outcome of the meeting with the LTC Workers Union.