BARRING last minute suspension, Imo State workers will today commence
an indefinite industrial action over unresolved industrial dispute with
the state government.
The threat was contained in a statement by the State Public Service
Negotiating Council, SPSNC, Trade Union Side, signed by the State
Chairmen of Joint Negotiating Council, JNC, and Nigeria Labour Congress,
NLC, Comrade Coleman Okwara and Dr. Reginald Anyadike respectively and
four others.
The circular read: “Labour has observed with dismay and consternation
that government, in its usual disposition, has reneged by refusing to
sign the agreement jointly reached with labour.”
The labour leaders argued that “this singular act portends high level
of distrust, deceit and neglect to the principle of collective
bargaining.”
They directed that “from the foregoing, workers under the Imo State
Government employment are hereby called to sit at home from Wednesday,
May 30, 2012”.
Vanguard gathered that the directive would subsist “pending when
government shows enough seriousness, commitment and respect for the
collective bargaining process earlier reached with it.”
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