Workers New Year Gift To Ekiti Government |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

Workers in Ekiti state have offered the State  Government  a New  Year  package, to be delivered in the first week of the New  Year .

The package is coming in the form of a peaceful protest to press home some of their outstanding benefits.

The workers, under the Nigeria Labour Congress,(NLC), Trade Union Congress,(TUC) and the Joint Negotiating Council, (JNC) rose from a meeting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday where the decision was taken.

In a communique signed by representatives of the three unions, they agreed “that failure on the part of the state government to implement the new minimum wage and consequential adjustment as  negotiated,  as well as various outstanding arrears, the Organized Labour should mobilise workers for peaceful protest in the first week of January, 2021.

Other resolutions include: “That the new minimum wage and consequential adjustment implementation should commence  for payment in January 2021 with the accruable arrears from April 2020.

“That all arrears of promotions for  years 2017, 2018 and 2019 ; arrears of leave bonuses for years 2016, 2017,2018,2019 and 2020  as well as 6 years for LG , subvented institutions, four years for State workers salary arrears , cooperative deductions and  Gratuities for pensioners should be paid in earnest.

“That the Organized Labour should with immediate effect report to the enlarged workers at the State Secretariat complex to allow adequate information to the generality of workforce.”

Signatories to the communiqué are Kolapo Olatunde, State Chairman NLC; Sola Adigun,State Chairman TUC; Kayode Fatomiluyi, Chairman JNC;  Mrs Akinyemi Taiwo, Secretary NLC; Kuloogun Lawrence, Secretary, TUC; Gbenga Olowoyo, Secretary JNC among others.