IS DR. YAW BAAH NEXT SG OF TUC?

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About one thousand, 500 delegates and observers of the 18 affiliate labour unions of the Trades Union Congress, Ghana, TUC, from across the country have converged on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi in the Ashanti region for the 10th Quadrennial Delegates’ Congress of TUC. 


The six-day Congress, which is on the theme: “Building Workers’ Power for Decent Work and National Development”, is an opportunity for the leadership of the TUC to account for their stewardship and how they have managed resources and affairs of unionized workers in the country in the last four years. 

Key on the agenda on the Congress will be the election of a new crop of leaders to steer affairs of the largest labour movement in Ghana between now and 2020. 

Perhaps, the highlight of the elections will be the choice of a successor of Kofi Asamoah as the new Secretary General. 

Mr. Asamoah will not be seeking a re-election tomorrow/today after leading the TUC for eight years of two terms, even though the TUC’s Constitution does not place a term limit on how long its Chief Executive Officer can hold that position.

 However, it has now become a convention that successive Secretaries General last for a maximum of eight years beginning from the tenure of Kwasi Adu Amankwaa. 

All other positions, including the National Chairman and Deputy Secretary General, are up for grabs at the elections which take place on Thursday, August 11. 

Meanwhile, Ashanti Today can safely predict that the current Deputy General Secretary of the TUC, Dr. Anthony Baah, would likely take over from Mr. Kofi Asamoah by early Thursday. 

Dr. Anthony Baah has served as the Deputy Secretary General since 2008. Additional intelligence picked up by Ashanti Today from influential blocks of the workers' movement point to the Dean of General Secretaries, Joshua Ansah, is in a pole position to become the next Deputy Secretary General.

 Already, the Women and Youth Wings of the TUC have had their respective Congresses as preludes to the main TUC Delegates’ Congress where they elected their respective Executives.

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