At a time that all public sector workers have to contend with recently approved salary increases of between 20-28 per cent, staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) have rejected outright, proposed salary increases of over 100% by the Authority’s management.
The development also comes at a time when electricity consumers are struggling to contend with a 72 per cent increase in electricity tariffs approved by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) since August last year.
Sections of the VRA staff are consequently threatening to embark on a strike action to press home their demands for higher salaries. Sources at VRA told the INDEPENDENT newspaper that the Board of Directors of the organization under the Chairmanship of Dr Jones Ofori-Atta will meet today to resolve the matter.
Investigations by the paper revealed that VRA staff, even on their present salary levels belong to the elite class of well-paid public sector workers with several other perks unavailable to even some of the elite class public sector workers.