3,080 mine workers sent home as industry’s fortune reverses

The Ghana Mineworkers Union has said between January 2013 and March 2014 it lost 3,080 members, or 16.1 percent of its membership, through retrenchment blamed on the slump in the price of gold. The union said it is worried that redundancy is always considered the major option to manage financial and operational crises within the ... Read Full Story