"GMC workers protest ‘poor working conditions’", 28 Feb 2017

Young people working at the Gambia’s only flour company, Gambia Milling Corporation (GMC), yesterday embarked on a peaceful protest demanding a salary increment, quality and dignified working conditions, 100 per cent health insurance, protective working gears and non-discrimination at work. They also called for the resignation of their Human Resource Manager and other top senior officials, who allegedly abused their labour during work...[One of the complainants] said they are working for 8 hours with no night allowance and without a break in three shifts, but the highest they are paid is D4,200 [about USD 94]...[He] said this was the first time they had staged a protest, because the past regime did not allow them to protest; so they suffered in silence...When the press requested to speak with the HR officer, Abdoulie Karaan, he said he was in a meeting...and could not tell the press anything until the meeting was over. He asked the media personnel present to leave their numbers with the guard, and he would call them later to comment on the situation...