Kumasi, Dec. 13, GNA - The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has demanded of the political parties and their candidates' serious debates over the main pressing issues confronting the people as the country prepared towards the 2012 general elections.

It said what the nation needed was "a clear vision of the future of Ghana and a concrete policy alternatives that have the capacity to transform our economy and lift our people out of the quagmire of mass poverty into the middle income where social equity and justice prevail."

Workers would not accept politics of insults, personality attacks and least of all, any incitement to violence.

Mr Kofi Asamoah, the Secretary-General, stated the position of the labour union in speech at the eighth quadrennial delegation