BREAKING: Ekiti Workers Threaten Strike Over Welfare, Give Fayemi 14-Days Ultimatum

By Fisayo Gbadamosi Last updated Jul 17, 2020

Organized Labour in Ekiti State has given the state governor Dr Kayode Fayemi fourteen days Ultimatum to implement matters affecting workers welfare in the state or face industrial action.

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In a letter addressed to the governor and signed by the chairmen and secretaries of NLC, TUC and JNC the Labour leaders expressed concern over the lackadaisical attitude of government to the demands of the workers which had been communicated to the governor and top cabinet members through several letters.

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Signatories to the letter are, Comrade Kolapo Joshua Olatunde,
NLC Chairman; Comrade Sola Adigun, TUC Chairman; Comrade Kayode Fatomiluyi, JNC chairman; Comrade Gbenga Olowoyo, JNC Secretary; Comrade Kuloogun Lawrence, TUC Secretary; Comrade Taiwo Akinyemi, NLC Secretary.

THE LETTER

FOURTEEN (14) DAYS ULTIMATUM TO IMPLEMENT MATTERS AFFECTING WORKERS WELFARE IN EKITI STATE TO AVOID 3-DAYS WARNING STRIKE

The State Leadership of the Organized Labour in Ekiti State met on Thursday 16th July, 2020 to exhaustively deliberated on various pending issues affecting workers welfare which have remained unattended to with impunity and lazier faire disposition on the part of the State Government.

Your Excellency, It is with heavy heart that we considered it as a grave insensitivity and exclusion on the part of the state Government to turn blind attention to various outstanding issues which we have highlighted in our not less than six letters to the State Government with a particular reference to our recent letter dated 21st May 2020 vide ESOL/EKS/VOL121/85 entitled “MATTERS AFFECTING WORKERS WELFARE IN EKITI STATE – NEED FOR URGENT ATTENTION TO GUARANTEE INDUSTIAL PEACE” which was duly dispatched on the 21st May 2020 to both the office of the Mr Governor and the office of the Head of Service and no official response was received on these various correspondences

Flowing from the above and for the purpose of clarity and emphasis, the leadership of the organized Labour wish to highlight the outstanding workers welfare as follows:

The Organized Labour Considered it as not only sacrilegious but also unprecedented the non-implementation of financial benefits arising from the letters of promotion given to all deserving workers from years 2015, 2016,2017, 2018 and 2019 and advancement.

For the purpose of hindsight, successive Governments in the State since the creation of Ekiti State in 1996 have been implementing promotions in a sequential order and as an when due, for instance and in order to refresh our memory various outstanding promotions for different years especially 2012, 2013 and 2014 were implemented without any denial.

It is unacceptable to the entire workforce for the State Government to jetition the outstanding promotions for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 and contemplate in the implementation of 2018 and 2019 only. Whereas some workers were appointed Permanent Secretaries and Executive Secretaries as a result of the above referred years 2015, 2016 and 2017 of promotions while other workers were left to groan in pains and inflicted with Pshycological paralysis.

Also, the payment of the following outstanding salaries and deductions Arrears should be effected with immediate effect
Three months Gross Salaries Arrears and five months Deductions for State Workers and Secondary School teachers.
Six months Gross Salaries and six months deductions for Local Government workers and primary School Teachers.
This singular action of non payment of these outstanding arrears by the State government has turned Workers to hopeless species.

In addition, the speculated percentage salary payment to Workers is vehemently rejected. Ekiti Workers’ should not be treated like slaves with this inhuman speculated.

The Non-payment of Leave Bonus for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 to all deserving workers in the state is not only appalling but also uncharitable. The traditional regular payment of Leave Bonus to deserving workers in the past is now gradually going to extinction in Ekiti State which is very strange and unpalatable to all workers.