NLC Threatens Five Days Warning Strike Over Dismisal Of Kaduna Workers
Ayuba Wabba, the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress while addressing newsmen at meeting of the Central Working Committee has threatened a nationwide strike over the unlawful dismissal of civil servants in Kaduna by the Nasir El-Rufia, the Kaduna State governor.
Wabba said that the union will embark on a five-day warning strike and if no relevant actions are taken by government agencies within these five days, the union will think on the next line of action. He also alleged that El-Rufai had the backing of the Federal Government and some state governments.
He said CWC further recommended to the National Executive Council that labour withdraw all services from both the public and private sectors of the economy for five days in the first.
According to him, the CWC, therefore, thought that workers should not be allowed to die in silence as thousands of workers who had been sacked were yet to be paid in line with the provisions of the law.
This NLC decision came a week after Governor El-Rufai announced plans to relieve civil servants in the state, on the basis that a significant amount of the statutory federal allocations to the state goes to the payment of wages of public servants.
El Rufai had said the public service of the state with less than one hundred thousand employees and their families cannot be consuming more than ninety percent of government resources, with little left to positively impact the lives of the more than nine million that are not political appointees or civil servants.
Therefore, he insisted the state government had no choice but to shed some weight and reduce the size of the public service.
