Public Servants in Ondo state are set to commence an indefinite strike on Wednesday if the state government failed to pay all outstanding and deductions made from their salaries.
The workers through the State Chairman of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (JNC), Sunday Adeleye, disclosed this while speaking to reporters Monday in Akure, the state capital.
According to Adeleye, the indefinite strike became imperative after the workers had issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to pay all the entitlements.
He said, “We have been meeting with the representing of the state government since last week after issuing a statement of a seven-day ultimatum which was deadlocked.
“But if by Tuesday, the state government failed to accede to our demand, the Union will have no other option than to call a congress by Wednesday and a total strike action will be declared indefinitely.”
The workers had last week issued a seven-day ultimatum to the state government for refusing to pay all deductions from their salary.
They also decried that cooperative societies for workers are no more functioning due to non-release of workers deductions to the societies.
The seven-day ultimatum was contained in a statement also signed by the JNC State Chairman, Comrade Sunday Adeleye after a meeting with labour leaders.
Adeleye noted in the statement that non-payment of all deductions in the salary of the workers’ showed government’s insensitivity to the plight of civil servants in the state.
The workers lamented the untold hardship over the delay in the payment of salaries to workers, stressing that life is now unbearable and pride of being Civil Servants has faded out.
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