The Cross River State Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has ordered workers in the state to stay at home from Monday 29 June 2020 as it begins an indefinite strike.
This comes a week after the body shelved its earlier plan of embarking on strike on June 15 to allow for negotiation with the state government.
But on Friday in a press conference, the NLC said that the strike action was the last resort since the government has refused to negotiate with them in a bid to address their demands but instead turned a blind eye to all their request by sourcing for a court injection to stop the expression of their constitutional rights.
Comr. Ben Ukpebi said: “It is very obvious that Cross River state is not interested in the welfare of her workers. Workers issues presented to government have been ignored. Even some issues that Organised Labour has reached agreement on have all been abandoned and rejected by the government.
“Be informed that some of our workers whose names were unjustly removed from the payroll have died, we have lost about five members and we can no longer keep mum, enough is enough.
“Others request including implementation of promotion given four years ago, the return of workers whose names were illegally removed from payroll last year September, payment of pensions and gratuities for six years now amongst other demands.
“Immediate return of weighing allowance to NUPPROW members and RATAWU. Payment of salary of workers employed two years about 2000 of them have not been paid, the allowance is a federal thing and should be returned and so on.
“I want to say here that we have given 14 days, we have also given another 7 days yet no response on the part of the government, and that is why we believe they are not serious and unperturbed about our cry.
“So comrades, on this note starting from Monday 29, June we advise every civil servant in Cross River state, to stay at home, nobody will sack you, nobody will victimise you in any way.
“Do not allow the labour task force to drive you home from your various offices, stay at home until there is further.
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