Ondo Workers Embark On Total Strike Tomorrow

Civil Servants in Ondo State are set to down tools indefinitely if the state government fails to act promptly on the delays in the payment of their salaries.
The workers gave the state government until Wednesday to pay all outstanding salaries and deductions made from their salaries for months.
The state chairman of the Joint Public Service Negotiating ‎Council, Sunday Adeleye‎, who stated this on Monday in Akure, while speaking to Journalists, warned that an indefinite strike was inevitable following the expiration of a seven-day given to the state government to commence payment.
“We have been meeting with the representatives of the state government since ‎last week after issuing a statement of a seven-day ultimatum and it was all deadlocked”, Mr. Adeleye said.
“But if by Tuesday the state government fails to yield to our ‎demands, the union will have no other option than to call a congress by tomorrow and a total strike action will be declared indefinite”, he added.
The workers last week lamented that cooperative societies for workers had died naturally due to non-release of workers deductions to the societies even as they pointed out that the societies were the additional means through which workers used to survive.
According to ‎Mr. Adeleye, the‎ non-payment of all deductions from the salaries of workers’ demonstrated the insensitivity of the state government to the plight of civil servants in the state.
‎The ultimatum issued last week and addressed to the governor, Olusegun Mimiko, stated: “The Unions in the Public Service of Ondo State under the Joint Negotiating Council (JNC) rose from its meeting held on Monday, 13th July, 2015 where exhaustive deliberations on the welfare of workers in the Public Service of the State were discussed.
“The meeting noted with sincerity, the efforts that Ondo State Government is making at ensuring that salaries are paid to workers even at the face of the economic depression in the country.
“The meeting however noted the untold hardship caused by the delay in the payment of salaries to workers and observed that, life is no longer bearable and pride of being Civil Servants has become a thing of the past.
“Your Excellency, it is quite imperative to inform you that, deductions for March, April and full salaries for May and June, 2015 are yet to be paid.
“Your Excellency, it is disheartening to note that Cooperative Societies for workers have died prematurely due to non-release of workers deductions to the societies and these are areas where workers live up to, during the time of need.
“The feelings of the entire workers are full of hopelessness, disenchantment, frustration and economic enslavement of highest order since they could no longer meet their social and family responsibilities.
“The meeting therefore resolved to appeal to the State Government to pay up all the outstanding salaries and deduction without further delay; within a stipulated period of seven days from the receipt of this letter.
“Failure, the leaders of the Unions in the Public Service of the State may not be able to guaranty an industrial peace in the state”.

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