Ekiti organized labour maintain stance, orders 3-day warning strike
By Rotimi Ojomoyela, Ado Ekiti
The Ekiti State organised labour has directed workers to proceed on a three-day warning strike beginning from Monday, August 3.
The Labour force had recently issued a fourteen-day ultimatum to the government through a letter over their outstanding salaries and arrears.
The strike, according to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) was to pressure Governor Kayode Fayemi to attend to their demands.
The State government and organised labour have been embroiled in a cold war over unpaid seven months salary arrears of local government workers and primary school teachers, as well as pensioners, three-month arrears for secondary school teachers and civil servants and outstanding gratuities spanning over ten years.
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Others contentious payments include: leave bonus from 2015 till date, arrears of promotions for workers at all levels, deductions and implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage across the board.
The outstanding payments, which progressively accumulated during Governor Ayodele Fayose’s regime became an albatross for Fayemi, having promised to defray the arrears totalling N57 billion within one year of assuming office for his second term.
The directive was contained in a statement jointly signed by the Chairmen of NLC, Com. Kolapo Olatunde, TUC, Com. Sola Adigun and JNC, Com Kayode Fatomiluyi, on Friday.
The labour said: “The warning strike called by the Organized Labour in Ekiti will commence on Monday, 3rd August 2020 at 12:00 am.
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“Fellow workers the State Government is yet to attend to any of our requests such as Financial Promotion for the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 yet to be implemented.
“No Commitment to all outstanding deductions such as cooperative money, loan repayment to banks, housing fund, and so on”, the statement said.
“Owing to the above, the strike action will commence from 12:00 am on Monday, 3rd August 2020, except government attends to our demands.
“No worker should go to work or listen to any directive from any quarters, except the leadership of the organized labour in Ekiti State”.
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