Workers in Taraba
State Government under the auspices of the Joint Public Service Negotiating
Council, shut down the state secretariat in Jalingo to protest against the
non-payment of their salaries.
Addressing the
workers yesterday, the state Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter
Gambo, said the state government had continued to be insensitive to the plight
of the workers, explaining that the workers were protesting against other
irregularities in the payment of their salaries and pensions of retirees in the
state.
The chairman also listed
such irregularities as illegal deductions from salaries and subjection of
workers to meaningless screenings and futile verifications by the government.
Gambo further
called for the dues which were deducted indiscriminately without being remitted
to the respective accounts of the unions, to be repaid to the workers.
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