The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) Ghana has called for immediate government recapitalisation of the New Times Corporation (NTC) and the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) to help revamp the two state-owned ailing media organisations.
The two, it said, were struggling to survive and the salaries and benefits of the staff of the two organisations were in arrears for several months due to financial difficulties.
The General Secretary of ICU Ghana, Mr Morgan Ayawine, who made the call in Accra during the Accra Regional Council, Youth and Women Conference, further said, the retirement benefits and provident fund contributions of the retried staff of state publishers were outstanding.
The programme held on Friday elected new officers for the Greater Accra branch of the ICU Ghana as prelude to its 12th National Quadrennial Conference scheduled for August this year in Accra.
