The General Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Solomon Stephen Ashalley Kotei has charged Ghanaian workers to stay abreast with modern trend of technology in the field of work to avoid being victims of employee layoffs.
According to him, the emergence of technology is becoming a threat to job security since the use of machines is preferred by employers at the expense of human capital.
Mr Kotei said these at the ICU’s delegate conference held in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on Friday, 18 August 2017.
Mr Kotei who contested unopposed was reelected to serve as the ICU’s General Secretary for the next quadrennial.
He also pledged to work towards protecting the interest of members of the union.
Below are the results from ICU delegates congress:
National Vice Chairman
Alfred K. K Twum Barimah-395
Emmanuel Dzageli -143
Isaac Kingsley Asaah- 290
Deputy General Secretary (Administration)
Emmanuel Baah Benima- 501
Eleazar K. Nyaunu -253
Second National Trustee
Naomi Nartekie Nartey-562
Isaiah Nii-Kwei Narteh-195
General Secretary (unopposed)
Solomon Stephen Ashalley Kotei
National Chairman (unopposed)
Emmanuel Victor Obeng Adu
Deputy General Secretary Operations (unopposed)
Morgan Ayawine
First National Trustee (unopposed)
Emelia Amadu Asibi
Total Number of Delegates-966
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
