Oyo workers begin three-day warning strike Wednesday

Three Labour unions in Oyo have directed workers in the state
employment to stay from their duty posts for three days,
starting from Wednesday.
TheBay directive came in a statement jointly signed by Mr.
Kofo Ogundeji, NLC State Secretary, Mr. Falegbe Mayowa, TUC
State Secretary and Mr. Olabode Akinfenwa, JNC Assistant
State Secretary.
The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports the unions were the
NLC, Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiating
Council (JNC).
They said that the action was to call on the state government
to address the 13-week-old strike of the state-owned tertiary
institutions and 256 sacked workers of Ladoke Akintola
University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso.
It is also in solidarity with complaints presented by the Joint
Health Sector Union(JOHESU), 56 months accumulated unpaid
pensions and gratuities of retired primary school teachers and
a halt in workers’ promotion since 2010.
Mr. Waheed Olojede, the State NLC Chairman, who spoke
alongside Mr. Emmanuel Ogundiran Chairman, JNC/TUC, said
the government had shown continued insensitivity to the plight
of workers of the state’s tertiary institutions who were owed
17 months salaries.
Olojede asked the state government to rescind its decision on
the sacked 256 LAUTECH Teaching Hospital workers,
considering their hardship.
He added that the workers were directed to stay at home in
solidarity with their affected colleagues.
Olojede urged that the state government to urgently attend to
the grievances to avert further actions.
NAN reports that senior officers of the state government were
in a meeting over the issue as at the time of filing the report.
(NAN)