The three Labour centres in Oyo state which includes the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) have directed workers in the state to stay off their duty posts for three days, starting from today, January 24.
Commencing the three-day warning strike today, the group demands that the state government addresses the 13 weeks old strike by the state-owned tertiary institutions, the sack of 256 members of staff of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, lingering complaints of workers in the health sector as presented by the Joint Health Sector Union, among other issues.
Other issues that prompted the strike the group said include the unpaid pensions and gratuities of retired primary school teachers accumulating to 56 months, and stall in workers’ promotion since 2010.
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NLC Chairman, Waheed Olojede, who spoke alongside Chairman, JNC/TUC, Mr Emmanuel Ogundiran, and JAC executives of the tertiary institutions, told journalists that the state government had shown continued insensitivity to the plight of workers of the state’s tertiary institutions who were owed 17 months salaries.
Olojede then asked the state government to rescind its decision to sack 256 members of staff of LAUTECH teaching hospital, noting the woes, hardship experienced by the sacked workers.
He added that the workers were directed to stay at home in solidarity with other affected workers to include those working in the service of local government owed salaries.
