Update: Cape Coast Metro Mass drivers calls off strike after meeting with management

Update: Drivers of the Metro Mass Transit in Cape Coast in the Central region suspends strike after meeting with management.

Chairman of the Drivers’ Union, Joshua Addae after the meeting said they are giving the management seven days to address their concerns else they will resume the strike.

Drivers of the Metro Mass Transit in Cape Coast on Monday embarked on industrial action over what they describe as “poor treatments by management to drivers. ”

They are also accusing management of not performing regular maintenance works on buses, thereby, risking their lives in the process.

They say the strike is expected to send a message to the management for such ill-treatments against drivers.

According to reports, passengers, who trooped to the Cape Coast Terminal on Monday and Tuesday morning, were stranded as a result of the strike.

The drivers argue that their salaries and insurance packages have not been paid for some time now.

This situation, according to them is making life unbearable.

In an interview theghanareport.com monitored on Onua FM’s Yen Sempa show, the Deputy Managing Director of the MMT, Nana Osei, in response to the strike noted: “that management is aware of their issue and deliberations are currently going to calm the situation.”

Mr Osei confirmed that one of their issues is that “payments have delayed.

He, however, assured the drivers that effort was ongoing to be given what they are due.

“We are assuring them that they should be calm. It’s not the fault of management. We run the company by internally generated funds. By the close of day today or tomorrow, we shall pay them”, he explained.