Civil servants in Jigawa State have urged the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, within the state to neglect about all its calls for and work in direction of the actualization of the N35,000 wage award within the state.
Some of the workers raised concern over the current settlement reached between the Federal Government and NLC to droop the deliberate industrial motion scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
Part of the settlement contains the fee of a six-month wage award of N35,000 to Federal Government workers and directed state NLC chapters to make sure the total implementation of the identical quantity to state and native authorities workers.
Reacting to the directives, Malam Aliyu, a employees member of Jigawa State civil service accused the state chapters of allegedly dancing to the tune of state governments.
“NLC at the national level has done its part what remains now is for state chapters to push and ensure full compliance without compromising.
“Both Federal, state and local government workers were affected by the fuel subsidy removal the same way, therefore there is no basis for state governments to reduce the said amount as the federal government has issued enough money to state governments,” he stated.
Iliya, one other employees membet blamed the state NLC for making three calls for to the state authorities quite than pushing to make sure implementation of the identical wage award to state and native authorities workers.
“The NLC in Jigawa is illogical and lost focus. This is a time to defend the rights of workers at the state level as the National body of the labor union did with the FG. But NLC Jigawa is coming up with three demands, particularly Soft Loans, food palliative, and transport allowance.
“We don’t want any soft loan or palliatives, The NLC should base its negotiation with the state government on adopting what the FG implements,” he stated.
They urged the state governor Malam Umar Namadi to think about the present hardship state and native governments workers are going by way of to implement the stated quantity with none negotiations.
