Organized labour suspends proposed strike in Kogi

Organized Labour in Kogi State, has suspended its proposed strike scheduled to kick-off from Midnight of Sunday March 21, Our Kogi State Correspondent reports.

The Organized Labour in a statement jointly signed Friday March 19 by the Secretaries, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Owoeye Anthony, Trade Union Congress, TUC, Comrade Kolawole James and Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, JPSNC, Comrade I. Abubakar, said to avert the looming strike, the State Government ordered members of the 17-man committee, to resume work immediately with a mandate to submit its report in a very short time.

The statement reads inter-alia: "Over the months, the Leadership of Organized Labour, have patiently waited for this Government to conclude negotiation with Labour leaders on the New Minimum Wage, signed into law by President Muhammed Buhari in April 2019. The committee was inaugurated February 2020.

"It is on record that Organized Labour in the state, wrote severally to the State Government on the critical need for the committee to conclude this all-important assignment, but none of our letters was responded to until a notice of a 21-day ultimatum was issued on 2nd March 2021.

"Consequently, the Leadership of Labour therefore has decided to put on hold the proposed strike scheduled to begin on mid-night of Sunday March 21, pending when the committee would submit its report".

While appreciating workers for maintaining a very cordial industrial relations atmosphere prevailing in the State, the Organized Labour in the state, appealed to workers to go about their normal and legitimate business, while praying God should touch the hearts of the government to do the needful.

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