The Nigerian Railway workers are to embark on a 3-day warning strike from Thursday, November 18 to November 20, 2021. General Secretary of the...

By Abdullateef Aliyu
The Nigerian Railway workers are to embark on a 3-day warning strike from Thursday, November 18 to November 20, 2021.

General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Railway Workers (NUR), Comrade Segun Esan, confirmed this in a chat with Daily Trust.

Daily Trust gathered the workers have notified the authorities of the strike.

A letter titled ‘’ Notice and Directive to embark on 3- day warning strike nationwide,’’ dated November 12th was addressed to District Chairman/Secretary Nigeria Union of Railway workers and Senior Staff Association.

The Nigeria Union of Railwaymen (NUR) and its sister body, Senior Staff Association for the Statutory Corporation and Government-owned Company (SC GOC), had earlier given the Federal Government and the National Railway Corporation (NRC) a three-week ultimatum to address its welfare concerns to prevent an total industrial action across the country beginning from November 14.

These demands include an increase in the salaries of NRC staff, incorporation of life insurance and payment of promoted staff arrears from 2018 to date, among others.


According to the letter sent to the Managing Director of the NRC, Engr. Fidet Okhiria, and the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the labour unions said their “agitation for enhanced salary cannot be overemphasized as it is an open secret that the salary regime of the Nigerian Railway workers is the worst and most incomprehensible of all salary structures available to the parastatals under the supervision of the federal ministry of transport”.

“The Honorable Minister of Transport once acceded to the fact that Nigerian Railway workers can easily be identified from the crowd by the way they look and dress which he meant to be strikingly suggestive of the very poor salary paid in the corporation,” the letter read.

“It baffles us so much that the federal government spends billions of dollars on building rail transport infrastructure and transforming the system to a modern railway system but with no dint of impact or improvement in the welfare of the workers in terms of improved remuneration.

“We wonder how long the Honorable Minister of Transport will keep avoiding the railway workers and consciously failing in getting better pay for the impoverished Nigerian Railway workers. We wonder how long we will wait before we get our demand for improved salary approved just like that of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) where workers’ salaries were recently upped by three hundred percent.”

https://dailytrust.com/railway-workers-to-embark-on-three-day-warning-strike

Ok

Buhari would increase it and bring bandits federal civil servants to retrieve it via ransom

lol Mak dem no go any strike oh....


Cause nothing must du d 800naira wey dey my account mak I no go dey hear say China don dey deduct from am cos the railway staff ar on strike....


Talking of salary increment wey d Govt neva pay bak d loan wey dey use for d project mak dem calm down...

The wereys are still talking of salary increment when bandits have started invading railway lines


No worry the increased salary na ransom una go use am pay las las

So soon?

Tomorrow Yorubas and Hausas fulani will collaborate again to install a mad man in animal skin as president.

Strike in every sector because of incompetent leadership in Aso Rock

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The Nigerian Railway workers are to embark on a 3-day warning strike from Thursday, November 18 to November 20, 2021. General Secretary of the...




https://dailytrust.com/railway-workers-to-embark-on-three-day-warning-strike

Life sentence for all scammers . . . including paternity fraudsters!

Nothing I mean absolutely nothing is working under this terrorist government.

Thunder fire Buhari
thunder fire his supporters

blood of Jesus cover the children of God

Buhari is a criminal terrorist vagabond gworo munching demon

Protest is the only language our government understands

Holly Gram real matters. WTF MAN

Which way Nigeria?

E don happen

They want to hold FG in "SUKURTUM" (in indaboski's voice)

Anything negative that can not happen in Nigeria does not exist.

The railway workers, their employer, minister of transport and Buhari are all MAD.

Almost all government sectors in Nigeria have gone on strike under this present incompetent administration...

The way Nigerians are waiting to push this man out come 2023

Na every sector dey strike under Bubu....

This scam called Nigeria is completely finished.

Railroad wey dey use debt revive
Rail workers wan collect their own share of the loan
Make dem even wait work never finish
Dem go still build across the north to Niger republic

Too bad despite all the religious competition in nigeria, makes me wonder how we ended up with ridiculous back stabbing thieves who like been called honourable.

Sets of honourable political thieves don turn billionaire in a Yahoo style. EFCC no dey see them na.

OYO is their name waiting concern me

We have a functional rail.....and now the workers have found their voices..

When the rail system was dead...they were collecting salary doing almost nothing...and no one heard their voice

Nigeria na cruise

What a mess.
Where are those who say government can do 'business'. They should ask themselves whether they have heard telecoms go down to strikes since 2002.
The government is sending the railways down the same paths of infamy as other parastatals and give it another decade and the 'legacy" will be gone.
Rather by now the two existing lines, Abuja-Kaduna and Lagos-Ibadan should have been concessioned and the proceeds reinvested into new lines instead of further loans.
But the very nature and structure of Nigeria forbids anything working well in our climes.
Good luck to them.
They have caught the strike bug and it is downhill from here.

Failed country

Nigeria under Buhari regime is synonymous to Retrogression

We no even know where we dey go for this country oo..

Are they not paid like other civil servants? Why do they want to cripple the only business FG is running successfully. The sabotage in this country is unimaginable.

Everybody wanna strike.

Their revenue generation is very poor.

Was it not on Nairaland it was revealed that they generated 1.5bn while expenditure was 61bn? I remember reading something like that recently.

The railways are simply grandiose projects that have added little or nothing to the economy. Billions of dollars spent with no comparable return.

It's best it's handed over to the private sector, the way the Brits did theirs. The Nigerian, government seems to be in zero hurry to get a bang for its buck by not rushing to do so.

Of which country? This same Nigeria Railway wey just start operations �?