Civil servants in Ondo State are set to begin an indefinite strike on
Wednesday should the state government fails to pay all outstanding
deductions made from their salaries for months.
The State Chairman of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council,
Comrade Sunday Adeleye, stated this while speaking to journalists on
Monday, in Akure, the state capital.
Adeleye said the industrial action would go ahead as the workers had
last week issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government, which
expires on Tuesday.
He said unless the government responds to the workers’ request by Tuesday, the strike would begin on Wednesday.
He added, “We have been meeting with the representatives of the state
government since last week after issuing a statement of a seven-day
ultimatum and it(meeting) was all deadlock.
“But if by Tuesday, the state government fails to yield to our
demand, the union will have no other option than to call a congress by
Wednesday and a total strike action be declared.”
The
labour leader lamented that the cooperative societies for workers had
died a natural death due to non-release of workers deductions to the
societies, saying these were additional means the workers used to
survive.
Adeleye had earlier noted in a statement that non-payment of all
deductions from the salary of the workers’ showed government’s
insensitivity to the plight of civil servants in the state.
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