Federal workers
may, from next week join university workers to down tools, if the
Federal Government fails to pay backlog of salaries and other allowances.
The workers, under
the umbrella of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), have threatened
that unless the federal government pays promotion arrears,
outstanding salaries, and other allowances, on or before September 18,
2017, they would shut down government.
“In view of the
foregoing, ASCSN has given the federal government a seven-day ultimatum, with
effect from September 18, 2017, within which to settle debts owed federal
workers failing which a three-day warning strike will start in federal
ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs throughout the country,” the union
stated.
ASCSN Secretary
General, Alade Lawal, lamented that for more than two years, government had
been promising to pay workers outstanding entitlements without doing so. “It is
rather unfortunate that the same federal government that has given state
governments bailouts, up to three times, to settle the entitlements owed their
workers, takes delight in punishing its own employees by denying them their
legitimate benefits,” he said.
SUN
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