Osun state civil servants may embark on an indefinite strike as the emergency meeting of labour leaders with the governor on Thursday ends in loggerheads over payment of salaries.
Inside Sources gathered that chaos was let loosed in the meeting when governor Aregbesola refused to worker’s full salary and arrears despite receiving #6.3 billion third tranche of the Paris Club loan refund.
The workers under the aegis Osun State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (JPSNC) in a statement jointly signed by JPSNC chairman Bayo Adejumo, Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, Tunde Adekomi, the Trade Union Congress Chairman, Bowale Adekola and leaders of various affiliate unions on Friday gave an indefinitely strike notice following the outcome of the Thursday meeting with the governor.
JPSNC in the statement released on Friday said “Consequent upon the refusal of the government of Osun State to accede to the demands of the workers and pensioners as contained in our letter dated Tuesday, December 5, 2017, the workers of Osun State will be proceeding on an indefinite strike by 27th December, 2017. The labour leaders enjoined the workers to stay at home until they received another directive from them concerning the strike.
The labour leaders had on Tuesday disagreed with Governor Rauf Aregbesola over his insistence on paying November salary with the modulated scheme which makes workers from grade level 08 and above collect between 75 and 50 per cent of their salaries.
The workers had insisted that the state had the financial ability to pay them full salaries, saying most of them had been collecting half salaries since September 2015”.
But governor Aregbesola through the Osun state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Adelani Baderinwa, had pleaded that the workers should exercise more patience till the state is able to revert to paying full salary.
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