Francis Tim Mbom
28 April 2008
The President of the Cameroonian Workers' General Trade Union, known by its French acronym, UGTC, Charles Mbong Akame, disclosed on Tuesday, April 22, in Limbe, that the general corps of trade unions is for a 10-percent salary increase for private sector employees.
He said if the employers were going to heed to their appeal, then the increase would take effect from July this year.Akame was speaking to The Post in response to what measures were being taken by employees of the private sector to narrow the income gap between them and state employees, following government's announced salary increases.
Akame stated that their request is based on the dictates of the convention of workers' rights which states that employers, obligatorily, have to effect an increment on their workers' earnings after every two years.
He said in 2006 they requested for a six-percent increase. But not all the employers respected their call. The UGTC President was in Limbe to donate 50 books for the Fako chapter of the trade union.
He said the books were documents on the convention of workers' rights, some about job and health security at the work place among other themes. The consignment, he said, was given to them by the International Labour Organisation, ILO, to share out to all their affiliates across the country.
"This is to show the importance that our trade union holds and the relationship it has with the ILO," Akame said.He promised that more of the books would be coming and urged that they should be used responsibly.
The Fako UGTC Branch President, Francis Ngwa, said they would be acquiring more office space where they would set up a library for the benefit of the workers.The Divisional Delegate of Labour, Mrs. Ekotto, hailed the offer and said it was a good mark of how trade unions could better take care of the workers' interests, by providing them with relevant documents.
The Limbe visit was attended by well over 30 workers' representatives from Buea, Tiko and Limbe.
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