Adopt positive work attitudes : Tema Shipyard workers told
The Director-General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), Mr Richard Anamoo, has urged workers of the PSC Tema Shipyard to adopt positive work attitudes to improve the company’s operations.
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He said beyond the injection of capital into the operational areas, the right attitude to work would greatly help to get the company out of the doldrums.
Mr Anamoo made the call when he addressed workers of the shipyard at a durbar.
The GPHA took over the management of the Shipyard on July 1, 2016, following a cabinet decision.
The GPHA is set to inject over $5 million into the operations of the facility, which has most of its infrastructure not functioning as a result of bad management practices in the past.
Mr Anamoo asked the workers to demonstrate professionalism in the discharge of their duties and place their expertise at the service of the new management to ensure efficiency.
National challenge
He said the facility had not been entrusted only to the GPHA, but to the entire workforce who struggled and fought for what they felt was right.
The shipyard has had a history of demonstrations dating over two decades in view of which Mr Anamoo tasked the workers to rather channel their energies into making the drydock a better working place, now that their agitations had borne positive fruits.
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“Let us tell the people of this country that we are not what they think we are; we are just victims of circumstances and given the opportunity, we are ready to turn this place into a business enterprise,” Mr Anamoo charged the workers.
Mr Anamoo also assured them that the GPHA would safeguard the job of all workers, promising that “no worker would be laid off, and we have already demonstrated that by recalling to work two of your colleagues who were dismissed by the previous management”, Mr Anamoo said.
“We are not here to lay off workers; we are here to transform the Tema Shipyard,” he stressed.
He also announced that training programmes would be instituted to shore up their skills and bring them at par with modern drydocks.
Writer’s email: della.russel@graphic.com.gh