strike declared to press home the payment of their outstanding two
months salaries and allowances.
The State Joint Negotiating Council Chairman, Comrade Oladipupo
Johnson, broke the news to our correspondent in Ado-Ekiti.
He said the workers agreed to suspend the strike in order to honour
the new Governor, Ayodele Fayose, after a meeting with the Head of
Service, Mr. Bunmi Famosaya.
He said, "We met at the Labour House and agreed to suspend the strike
in order to allow the new government settle down. This is to allow him
to settle down in office to find solutions to pending issues with
workers.
"That is the position as at now. We have directed all the striking
unions under the JNC to ask their members to resume on Friday. We want
to allow him to put an end to all the bad policies where salaries of
workers will be paid and the government will be withholding
deductions, and other related issues.
"We expect all workers in the public service to resume tomorrow (Friday)."
Johnson said the council had earlier met with government officials on
Wednesday where it refused to suspend the strike pending the
inauguration of Fayose.
While declaring the strike on October 2, Johnson had said, "It is
unfortunate to note that in spite of the pronouncement and promises
from top government functionaries, there seem to be no light at the
end of the tunnel . Sequel to the following, the workers of the public
service had met and directed that no worker should come to work today,
October 2, 2014 and this subsists until all conditions are met.
"And any worker who refuses to obey this simple directive dos so at
his or her own risk since the leaders would not take responsibility
for anything that happens."
Johnson, who said the council had been in dialogue with the Governor
in the last three months to resolving the issue, expressed surprise
that the workers were not paid even after government received two
allocations.
--PUNCH
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