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CARL TIEDEMANN STEVEDORING ENTERPRISE BASED UNION & 236 OTHERS
V.
SAFEBOND COMPANY LIMITED AND 1 OTHER

(2015) JELR 107520 (HC)

High Court 30 Nov 2015 Ghana
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- The 1st Plaintiff, a trade union, and its members are seeking various reliefs due to the company's declaration of redundancy in 2011 without an agreed compensation package. - The plaintiffs contend that the 1st Defendant failed to negotia

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Suit Number:SUIT No. INDL/13/12
Counsel:Albert Adaare ESQ for Plaintiffs D K Ameley ESQ for Defendants with him Desmond Nii Adamah Sackey ESQ

JUDGMENT 

1st Plaintiff is a trade union which holds a bargaining certificate. The other Plaintiffs are members of 1st Plaintiff and employees or former employees of 1st Defendant which is a company. 2nd Defendant is also a registered company. In 2011, 1st Defendant declared redundancy but there appears to be no agreed  compensation package for the affected employees. It is also 1st Plaintiff’s contention that 1st Defendant has failed to negotiate any collective bargaining  agreement. 

Plaintiff is seeking the following reliefs as endorsed on their writ of summons: 

1. An order directed at the Defendant to negotiate and execute forthwith, a  collective agreement with 1st Plaintiff to cover all the other Plaintiffs who  are the 1st Plaintiff’s members in the employment of the Defendant. 

2. An order directed at the Defendant to provide in writing to the 1st Plaintiff  forthwith, the number and categories of 1st Plaintiff’s members to be  affected by the redundancy exercise which the Defen…

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