Organised Labour is urging government to halt the recently announced utility tariff hikes a 9.86% increase in electricity rates and a 15.92% rise in water charges scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2026.
The unionized groups argue that the new adjustments threaten to erode the real value of the 2026 wage increase, stressing that they will resist any tariff revisions that undermine workers’ earnings unless government reviews the recently approved 9% salary increment.
Addressing journalists on Monday, December 8, the Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Joshua Ansah, expressed strong disappointment with the process leading to the tariff announcement. He noted that although the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) had scheduled an engagement with the TUC for December 8, the Commission unexpectedly released the new tariffs on December 2 a move he described as unjustifiable.
“We find this conduct unacceptable. After our meeting today, the TUC has resolved that, in the interest of fairness and the respect owed to our social partnership, government must suspend the announced tariff hikes,” he stated.
Ansah further emphasized that both government and the PURC must urgently return to the negotiation table to complete the agreed consultative process.
“The leadership of the TUC wants to assure all Ghanaian workers that we will resist any tariff adjustments that diminish the already modest 9% wage increase unless government re-engages us,” he affirmed.
