The Chairman of the General Transport Petroleum Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU), Bernard Owusu, has vowed to ensure that their interdicted executives are reinstated as soon as possible.
Two executives of the union have been interdicted by the TOR Board of Directors over the controversial deal between the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) and Torentco for disclosing classified information regarding the deal during a press conference.
The union has been on the case of the Board of Directors of TOR, calling for their removal from office following the Torentco deal.
According to the board, the interdicted union executives breached the non-disclosure agreement regarding the draft TOR/Torentco Lease and O&M agreements, citing Article 43(4) (vii) of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between TOR and GTPCWU.
During an interview with OmanFMnews, the Chairman of GTPCWU, Bernard Owusu, stated that the union executives have not committed any offense to warrant their interdiction.
He described the action of the board as the ‘show of power’, and unconstitutional, adding that the manual by the Board of Directors is new to them.
He said the Board is acting on impulse and panicking, due to the exposure of their involvement in the illegal deal which would have destroyed the future of such a valuable national asset.
It will be recalled that the GTPCWU, petitioned the Presidency and other relevant authorities to sack the Board Members of TOR as well as some of its workers, who were found to be implicated in the controversial Torrentco deal and which was halted by the President through the Attorney General’s office.
