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Kogi Workers Embark On Indefinite Strike Over Non Payment Of Salaries by yaqq: 9:52pm On Sep 22, 2017 |
The organized Labour in Kogi State has
directed workers in ministries, agencies and
parastatals to commence an indefinite strike
as from Friday, Sept. 22.
The Chairman of the state chapter of the
Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Ranti Ojo
flanked by his Nigeria Labour Congress
(NLC), counterpart, Mr Onu Edoka gave the
order while briefing newsmen in Lokoja On
Thursday.
He asked the workers to shun offices
indefinitely until directed otherwise.
He said that labor was forced to call out
workers on strike because of refusal of
government to invite them for negotiation
over their demands.
According to him, the strike is the only
lifeline left for the workers to negotiate their
survival in the hands of the administration
of Gov. Yahaya Bello.
Ojo directed the workers to ensure maximum
compliance, saying that all government
establishments, offices, facilities and
institutions be shut down by workers. The organized Labour had on Sept. 13,
issued a seven -day strike notice to the
state government to meet its demands or
risk industrial action by its members.
In its reaction to the notice , the state
government through the Director -General ,
media and publicity to the governor, Mr
Kingsley Fanwo described the tone of the
labours notice as harsh and described
signatories to the notice as unknown.
The state Head of Service, Mrs Deborah
Ogunmola made a last minute ditch to halt
the strike when she called the Labour
leaders for a meeting in her office on Sept.
21. The meeting, however, failed to stop the
workers to declare a strike.
The Labour is demanding among others , full
payments of salary and allowances to
workers being owed between two and 21
months arrears. The workers are also
demanding payment of outstanding leave,
yearly incremental allowances and
reinstatement of workers unjustly treated
during the recently concluded screening
exercise.
“Be prepared to stay at home till eternity if
it takes government to eternity to meet our
demands,” Ojo admonished the workers.
The Labour lampooned the government for
its poor attitude to workers’ welfare , saying
that never in the history of the state has
civil service records the massive hunger -
induced deaths as being witnessed
currently.
“Workers and pensioners are going through
trauma, anguish, pains, sickness, penury,
truncation of children’s education , huge
unsettled house rent/medical bills . We must
rise against these now or never , he said.
However, he said that , only workers under
the umbrellas of NLC, TUC, and the Joint
Public Service Negotiating Council will be
marking on the strike while members of the
National Union of Teachers , National Union
of Local Government Employees and the
Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria
will join on Sept. 27.
He urged workers to resist any form of
threat, intimidation and blackmail from the
state government , urging them to put on
uncommon courage, perseverance and
resoluteness to confront the bad situation.
Ojo asked all civil servants and members of
the public to pray in mosques and churches
on Sept. 22 and Sept 24 to God to deliver
the state from bad governance.
The TUC, NOC and the Joint Public Service
Negotiating Council will not budge until
their demands are met by the government.
“Our fidelity to this struggle is non-
negotiable ,” the TUC Chairman said and
accused the government of insincerity in its
dealings with the workers all these years.
The state President of the National Union of
Local Government Employees (NULGE), Mr
Tade Adyemi who was also present at the
briefing said that teachers, local government
workers and workers in the health sector
will join the strike on Sept. 27.
Adeyemi said that workers in the sectors
issued a separate strike notice to the 21
local government councils in the state who
were their employers.
Mr Thomas Ayodele, the state NUT Chairman
said that workers at the local government
level were solidly in support and party to the
strike declared by the TUC, NLC and the
Joint Public Service Negotiating Council. |
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