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Civil servants in
Bayelsa State will on Thursday (today) proceed on an indefinite strike over
months of salary arrears owed them by the state government.
This is just as the 21-day ultimatum issued by workers’ unions to the Bayelsa
State Government to pay all outstanding salaries and allowances elapsed on
Wednesday (yesterday).
The state chapters
of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress had issued an
ultimatum to the government on Thursday, April 28, 2016.
They had warned
that at the end of the ultimatum, they would take an action against the
government if it failed to comply with their demands.
State workers are
currently owed four months’ salaries with pensioners being owed seven months’
arrears even as local government council workers are being owed 12 months’
unpaid salaries.
The NLC and the
TUC, in a joint meeting on Wednesday at their council’s secretariat in Yenagoa,
resolved that they could no longer guarantee the existing industrial harmony
the state.
The unions said
the decision to proceed on strike became imperative as government had refused
to yield to their demands to relieve workers of the huge economic pains they
were going through.
Bayelsa State NLC
Chairman, Ndiomu John-Bipre, and the state TUC Chairman, Tari Dounana, said
that the two labour groups in Bayelsa resolved to join the ongoing nationwide
strike arising from the hike in the price of fuel and electricity.
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