Organised Labour in Nasarawa State has declared indefinite strike, starting Tuesday, June 15th.
The leader of NLC, Comr Yusuf and Mohammed Doma of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) respectively made the declaration at a joint press conference on Monday in Lafia.
According to Iya, despite the series of agreement reached with the state government to pay the backlog of workers promotion allowance since 2011 till date, nothing has been done but lips service.
“The present governor Abdullahi Sule when he came on board two years ago he pleaded with the Labor to be patient with him, we were patient till after two years and nothing has been done.
“The past administration hinge their excuse on paucity of fund saying they only received about N2.5billion as federal allocation, now the state is receiving N4.5billion.
“Governor Sule has up his security vote from N200m to N300m, but kept telling us that there is no money to pay arrears of workers since the past 13-14 years.
“A situation where there is no promotion allowances, no annually increment, no training. Worker in the state who were employed since 2011 still receiving same salary with nothing being added till date”, Iya lamented.
Similarly, the TUC chairman said that the workers in the state have suffered too long and have endured so much.
He stated that the decision to embark on the Indefinite strike was a collective decision and overdue, noting that the union had exhausted all channels of dialogue.
The union urged all workers in the state to comply strictly with the decision and vowed to stay at home until their demands are granted.
