Workers in Oyo State under the umbrella of Nigeria Labour
Congress (NLC) this morning, commenced an indefinite strike action.
NLC had on Wednesday said it had given a 24-hour notice to
commence strike and paralyse government activities, few days to the May 29
swearing-in of the new government of Engineer Seyi Makinde of the Peoples
Democratic Party in the state.
The teachers had last week, issued a 72-hour ultimatum to
Oyo state government to clear and settle backlogs of salaries owed its members.
The union while lamenting over unpaid salaries of primary school teachers, gave
the state government a 72-hour notice to go on indefinite strike if the
situation is not reversed. The union lamented over complementary allowances of
promotions of the teachers.
NUT listed issues worrying the members of the union as
non-implementation of the approval and accompany promotion benefits to the
primary school teachers by the Oyo State Joint Account Allocation Committee
(JAAC). Others are delay in payment of salary to primary school teachers, delay
in the promotion of grade level 14 to 15, continued withholding of 2018 leave
grant and delay in the clearance of teachers allegedly accused of illegal
promotion.
Titilola-Sodo, while
declaring that the strike has commenced, insisted that it can only be called
off when the government is ready to listen and fulfil its obligations on the
teachers.The NLC Chairman, in a telephone conversation with DailyPost
maintained that the decision to embark on the strike was taken at the union’s
meeting.
He said,
“The strike has commenced today. It has commenced.
It is an indefinite strike. We
expect all our members to join. We voluntarily and jointly agreed to commece
the strike at our meeting after the expiration of the notice we gave the
government. Every member of the NLC is expected to join the strike.”
When asked when the strike will be called off,
Titilola-Sodo insisted that it can only be called off when the government is
ready. He said, “That one you said, ask
the government. We did not serve them the notice today. We have been on it for
sometime. Thank you.”
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