Nasarawa Organized Labour Meets Labour Minister Over Percentage Payment

Rabiu Omaku

Irked over the unabated percentage payment of salary to workers in Nasarawa State, the executives of the Organized labour are have meet the minister of labour)  yesterday ,the spokesperson of the Public Service Negotiating Council, Comrade Yusuf Sarki has stated.

Sarki hinted that the national body of the union expressed displeasure during its Executive council and Administrative council over nonpayment of July/August salaries to core civil servants.

The spokesman described the steps taken as humiliation and alienation of certain categories of civil servants, he in addition said the state government defaulted the two months salaries to the “No work, no pay policy.

“In our meeting with the state government officials we realized that workers were paid their September salary while July/August is on hold, “nowhere in the constitution stated that civil servants should not be paid for going on strike”.

Comrade Yusuf Sarki berates the state government for breaching all the accord reached between the federal ministry of Labour and productivity and the National Human Right Commission which intervened and advice the state governor to go back to the statusquo by paying hundred percent.

When asked whether the organized labour would embark on strike action if the state government fails to go back to the statusquo, Sarki said the union will not back out from the ongoing negotiation for the moment.

It would be recalled that the state government recently set up a 22 man committee headed by the state Deputy governor, Silas Agara and eight weeks was given to the committee to submit it report.