Dr. Anthony Yaelected new TUC Secretary General

Dr.Anthony Yaw Baah has been elected by popular acclamation as the new SecretaryGeneral of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC).

This was at the 10th quadrennial delegates congress of the labour organization held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.

He replaces Mr. Kofi Asamoah, who has served out his two four-year terms of office became ineligible for-election.

Dr. Baah until his elevation was the Deputy Secretary General and had also previously served as head of the policy and research department of the Congress.

Other national officers elected by the delegates were Mr. Joshua Ansah, Deputy Secretary-General, the Reverend Richard Yeboah, Chairperson, Mr. Alex Nyarko Opoku, first Vice Chairperson andMs Philomena Aba Sampson, second Vice Chairperson.

They would all be serving a four-year term.

Dr. Baah pledged not to disappoint, saying, they were going to work with much energy and passion to help improve the working conditions of the Ghanaian worker.

He called for unity in the various labour unions to make the TUC formidable to champion the cause of workers.

GNA.