INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS' UNION (ICU) vs. ASSOCIATION OF RURAL BANKS [2013]DLNLC8380

Date	2013-12-22
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Citation No.	[2013]DLNLC8380

[2013]DLNLC8380
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS' UNION (ICU)<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>ASSOCIATION OF RURAL BANKS<o:p></o:p>[NLC]<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 31pt 31pt 1pt;">Our Ref: NLC/C-110/2016/67I&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE: 22ND DECEMBER, 2016<o:p></o:p></div>FOR THE COMMISSON:<o:p></o:p>EDWARD BRIKU-BOADU (CHAIRMAN)<o:p></o:p><div style="font-size: medium; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">DECISION<o:p></o:p></div>By a complaint dated 24th February, 2016 and filed at the National Labour Commission on the same day the<o:p></o:p>Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) (hereinafter referred to as the Respondent sought the intervention of the Commission to intervene in what they claimed is the failure or refusal of the Association of<o:p></o:p>Rural Banks (hereinafter referred to as the Respondents) to negotiate the review of the existing Collective Agreement (C.A.) between the complainant and the Respondent. By a letter dated 26th February 2016. The Commission served the said complaint on the Respondent to react to in line with Regulations 710 of the National Labour Commission Regulation 2006[ LI. 1822 ). By a letter dated March 8th 2016, the Respondent acting by its Executive Director Responded to the complaint filed by the Complainant.<o:p></o:p>The Commission heard the parties on 18th May, 2016 and 15th June 2016. At the hearing of 15 June 2016 the Commission decided to deal with the matter summarily and thus directed the parties to state their respective cases in the form of affidavits with exhibits together with written addresses to the Commission. The parties dully complied with the directives of the Commission and submitted their various affidavits and written addresses to the Commission on 22nd July 2016.<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The incontrovertible facts of the matter are that the Complainant is a trade union registered and operating under the laws of Ghana particularly the Labour Act 2003. The Respondent is also an employers' organization registered and operating under the Laws of Ghana. The Complainant applied for and was issued with a Collective Bargaining Certificate (CBC) by the Chief Labour Officer appointing the Complainant as the appropriate representative to conduct with the Respondent collective bargaining on behalf of all its members. The CBC is dated March 18th 2014 and numbered 0000214. On the authority of this certificate, the parties negotiated a Collective Agreement (CA) that was due to expire on 31st December, 2015.<o:p></o:p>