Kogi Workers Threaten To Embark On Warning Strike
Following the failure of the Kogi State
government to pay workers’ salary as a result of the proposed staff
verification exercise, the organised Labour on Wednesday threatened to
embark on a three-day warning strike.
The workers under the aegis of the
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint
Negotiating Council (JNI), also lamented that many of their members had
died due to the screening exercise that started on February 22, 2016.
Addressing newsmen in Lokoja, the Kogi
State capital, the state chairman of NLC, Onuh Edoka, said the warning
strike would commence on Monday, February 27 in solidarity with workers
of the higher institutions of the state that had been on strike for over
three weeks and those that lost their lives while trying to attend the
screening.
He said some of the workers had
accidents on their way to Lokoja and some were kidnapped and eventually
killed by their abductors.
More to come…
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