By: Naneka Hoffman
The Liberia Labor Congress (LLC) has inducted new corps of officials in office, to steer the affairs of the Congress in the next four years.
Those inducted include James T. Greaves, president; Winston Wreh, vice president for Administration; Marcus S. Blama, secretary general; and Obadiah D. Tarlue, deputy secretary for administration. Others are George Gibson, deputy secretary for operations; Abel Dada Darwin, treasure; Macauley Gedeo, Jr., national youth chair and Amelia Draper, chaplain, respectively.
Speaking at the induction ceremony over the weekend in Gardernsville, the newly elected President, James T. Greaves, said he and his team have come with experience and expertise to make sure that labor in Liberia is protected and given the needed courtesies due every laborer.
He said the priority of the leadership is to have equity, better representation, and others spread across every working group or institution both former and informer.
According to him, the labor congress will work with the tripartite arrangement it has within the decent work law and constitutional provisions to safeguard the congress election.
Mr. Greaves urged past and present leaders to put away their differences and come on board to work together as team, adding that reconciliation and unity are best ways to moving the Congress forward.
He called on all partners of the labor congress to work with the leadership in achieving their dreams and aspirations to give Liberia a valuable labor sector that will empower and bring economic growth.
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For his part, the keynote speaker, Ministry of Justice Assistant Minister for Codification, Abraham Mitchell, called on the new leadership to reunite members and reconcile every crisis that held them inactive for the parts more than five years.
Mr. Mitchell said a united labor force like the Liberia Labor Congress will improve nearly every sector of society because labor is the beacon that sustains and moves all factors of production.
He said there will be no existence of capital and other factors of investments that are used by enterprises for profit maximization and other purposes with labor.
“Labor has to recognize its relevance and should be able to in its relevance so that it can be respected and start playing its role in the society. The history of labor in Liberia has been suppressions, marginalization and other challenges, this leadership represents the totality of all laborers in the country,” Mitchell continued.
Also speaking, Labor Minister Cllr. Charles Gibson said that the independent elections conducted that brought together those elected were on the basis of the rule of law taking its course.
He added that the government through the labor ministry is going to work with the new leadership of the congress as a means to ensure that the will laborers are respected.
Minister Gibson said the decision of electing those in the new leadership as mandated by the Supreme Court is final and will have interference from any other force or organization.
He further said that there is only one leadership now at the Liberia Labor Congress following the induction of the new officials presided over by James T. Greaves. Editing by Jonathan Browne
