Organised labour in Ondo State on
Tuesday directed workers in the employment of the State Government to
embark on an indefinite strike from Wednesday.
The directive to commence the strike was
contained in a communique issued at the end of the emergency meeting of
the leadership of the Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) held this Tuesday in
Akure, the state capital.
Labour said the strike become inevitable because the Ondo State Government is owing workers five months’ salaries.
The communiqué signed by the leadership
of the labour unions stated that non-payment of salaries between January
and may had negatively affected workers and pensioners economically,
socially, psychologically and health-wise, which the labour unions can
no longer bear.
The organised labour expressed dismay
that the state government failed to honour an agreement it earlier
reached with them on the payment of two out of the five months by May
31.
The communique stated: “That it has
become unbearable that workers have not received salaries for the past
five months at a stretch.
“That workers of Ondo State can no longer bear this situation in view of the untold hardship suffered by these workers”.
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