Kwesimintsim (W/R) Oct 9, GNA - A Trade Unionist has called on the public to disabuse their minds of the notion that associate Trade Unions only with the organisation of strikes, demonstrations and workers' agitations.

Brother Joe Boafo Aikins, Principal Industrial Relations Officer of the Timber and Woodworkers Union (TWU) of TUC said organised labour had many social responsibilities to ensure harmony and peace not only among workers but also within the entire society to enhance development. He was speaking at a ceremony at which, food items, worth more than two million cedis, were presented to patients of the Kwesimintsim Poly Clinic by the Women's committee of the TWU at Kwesimintsim.

The items included two bags of rice, sugar, milk, biscuits, oranges, loaves of bread and ceiling brushes.

Brother Aikins said that organised labour had not shirked its social responsibility to society, adding that, most of its activities in this area had been done on the quiet and that had given the wrong impression. Sister Georgina Fletcher, President of the Committee, who presented the items on behalf of members, said the Union was committed to the welfare of the needy and afflicted and would continue to seek the comfort of such people through similar donations and selfless service to them. Dr Tawiah Siemeh, Medical Officer in-charge of the Clinic, thanked members of the Union for the gesture and called on other institutions to emulate the Union.

Brother Aikins and Sister Fletcher later led members to undertake a three-hour cleanup exercise at the Clinic.

They swept, scrubbed and removed cobwebs from the wards.