The Nigeria
Labor Congress (NLC), Zamfara chapter, on Monday announced a conditional
suspension of the indefinite strike it embarked upon a fortnight ago.
The announcement
was made by the state NLC Chairman, Comrade Bashir Mafara, after a meeting of
the State Executive Council (SEC) at its secretariat in Gusau. He said the
conditional suspension followed the intervention of various stakeholders,
including members of the state house of assembly, religious and traditional
leaders as well as the state’s Elders Forum.
Mafara said the
conditional suspension of the strike would be for four weeks, during which the
workers’ seven demands were expected to be met by the state government. “We are
not doing this out of fear or intimidation but for the respect we have for the
different categories of people that intervened in the matter,” the labour
leader said.
He directed all
workers in the state to immediately resume work and await further instructions
from the union’s leadership. The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the strike followed the failure of the
government to pay arrears of entitlements including promotion, gratuity of
pensioners and full implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage.
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