A serious industrial unrest looms in Kwara State as organized labour has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the state authorities for failure to fulfill its calls for.
The calls for, in response to Murtala Saheed Olayinka, Tunde Joseph and Saliu Suleiman, respectively chairmen of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and Joint Negotiation Council, JNC, within the state, embrace the non-implementation of the N35, 000 wage award for all classes of staff within the state following the elimination of gasoline subsidy by the federal authorities.
At a press convention in Ilorin, organised labour additionally complained concerning the refusal of the state authorities to cultivate and implement 40 per cent peculiar allowances as authorised and offered for by the federal authorities.
Other calls for embrace cost of consequential changes to pensioners because the approval of the present new minimal wage by the federal authorities in 2019 and a scarcity of willingness to pay native authorities staff excellent arrears.
The physique additionally decried insufficient funding of the state-owned tertiary establishments, a scarcity of willingness to soak up and correct placement of Kwara Hotel staff with none situation and a scarcity of correct placement of the redeployed Water Corporation workers into the core Kwara Civil Service.
The labour motion mentioned it was compelled to challenge the ultimatum given the blatant refusal of the state authorities to heed the calls for by staff of the state authorities, therefore elevating the worry of business peace and concord.
“In view of this, the Labour Congress of Kwara staff has reviewed the unpalatable disposition of presidency in direction of Kwara staff and, subsequently, given the Kwara State authorities a 14-day ultimatum, efficient January 9, 2024, to deal with all points raised and communicated prior to now.
“On a number of events, each NLC and TUC have written to the federal government concerning the calls for of staff and noticed ills in our state. Unfortunately, there was no change or try to deal with the problems raised in our letters.
“Most pathetic is the fact that the government of our dear state has refused to honour and implement all written and gentleman’s agreements it entered into with labour,”
The physique said.
Follow NL on Social Media
Twitter
Instagram
Telegram
Tiktok
Discussion about this post