GCGL inaugurates Local Union Executives, rewards staff
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Thursday awarded cash prizes and certificates of appreciation to outstanding staff and for long term service.
GCGL also inaugurated newly elected executives of the Local Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) at a grand durbar, which saw Mrs. Mabel Aku Baneseh of the Editorial Department adjudged the overall best worker.
Other prizes included table top fridges, flat screen televisions, and bags of cement.
The nine-member executive is chaired by Mr. Henry Addo.
The General Secretary of the ICU, Mr. Solomon Kotei who inducted the new executives, urged workers to be innovative and respond to new changes in the industry to enable the company achieve set targets.
He said the newspaper industry has many challenges, especially from other media platforms whose activities continue to erode newspaper sales and profit, asking that management and staff need to seek solutions together and ensure that they remain in business.
The Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Ken Ashigbey, who highly commended staff for their industry and commitment to work, said the Group remained an industry leader because of its unique staff and commitment to skills training. He said Graphic will continue to equip its staff to ensure that they remain the best and become even more profitable.
According to Mr. Ken Ashigbey, the national economic has experieced some shocks that have also impacted negatively on the purchasing power of readers and the only way the company can sustain reader interest, is for GCGL to serve them with the best that the market can offer.
He urged the unionised staff to engage management with an open mind since his administration was keen on serving their needs the best it can. He however counseled them to be considerate in their demands and take the national economy as well as the sustenance of the business into account whenever they make demands.
"We are in this together and we have your best interest at heart. The going is tough, but it is when the going gets tough that the tough gets going," he said, reminding the staff that management's doors were open to any grievance, while promising no one will be victimised for expressing any view.
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