Kwara Health Workers To Commence Indefinite Strike, May 2

Date: 2018-04-26

The Kwara State Medical and Health Workers' Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) says it will commence an indefinite strike on May 2.

A statement issued on Thursday and signed by the state Chairman of MHWUN, Mr Muritala Olayinka, noted that the indefinite strike will commence midnight of May 2.

He said that the union had earlier given the state government a 19-day ultimatum to meet their demands, which will lapse on May 1, 2018.

Olayinka explained that their demands include: upward review of Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) from 50 per cent to 100 per cent and the promotion of staff without financial backing should be addressed immediately.

He also cited non-payment of outstanding arrears of salaries of the staff of local governments in the state.

He stated that the union would not go back on its decision until the state government does the needful.

"I don't think the state government will respond to our demands before that day because we have made series of moves in ensuring government look into our demands but they turned deaf ears.

"If they make a move now, it is likely going to be a meeting, but it is until when we see approval for our demands before we can make a u-turn on the industrial action," he said.

The chairman noted that the state government had recently claimed that it was gradually getting out of recession and its economy had improved.

"Workers are not slaves so we have to make this struggle a totality until government responds to our demands," he said.

Olayinka calls on his colleagues to be law abiding and abide by instructions from the labour leaders.

Responding to the threat of industrial action by MHWUN, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Ahmed on Media and Communications, Dr Muideen Akorede, said that the state government was looking into the issue

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Fatimat Saliu     KWATMA     Shonga Farm Project     Timothy Akangbe     Emmanuel Bello     Oke-Kura     Oluwole Dupe     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Asa LGEA School     Wahab Agbaje     Local Government Pension Board     Gbemi Saraki     Kaiama     KW-GIS     Titus Ashaolu     Shade Omoniyi     Femi Ogunsola     Adaramaja     Ilorin Metro Park     Chief Imam Of Offa     Tope Daramola     Taiwo Joseph     COEASU     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Amina El-Imam     Abioye Bello     Garment Factory     Ndakene     Rotimi Oyedepo     Kamaldeen Gambari     Mukhtar Shagaya     Stephen Fasakin     Sodiya     Lai Mohammed     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Saliu Oluwole     Budo-Egba     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Lawal Jimoh     Alfa Belgore     AbdulRauf Keji     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Shaaba Lafiagi     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Elerin Of Adanla     Olaiya Lawal     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Ayodele Shittu     Adedeji Onimago     Monkey Pox     Mumeen Lah     Col. Adedipe     Press Release     ANCOPPS     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Okin Malt     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Solomon Edojah     Kolade Solagberu     Principal Private Secretary     Omoniyi     Baba Isale     Kwasu     Tanke Road     Belgore     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     NULGE     Saadu Alanamu     Tafida Of Ilorin     Innocent Okoye     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     March 18     Facemasks     Ibrahim Abiodun     Kwara Hotel     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     SDP    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Moshood Mustapha     Okanlawon Taiwo     Gbemi Saraki     Mukhtar Shagaya     Earlyon Technologies     Ayekale     Kisira     Iyabo Adewuyi     Pakata Development Association     Hassan A. Saliu     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Charcoal     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Olaiya Lawal     Labour Party     Kwasu     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Zainab Abass     Kale Belgore     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Kayode Alabi     UITH     Bolaji Abdullahi     Rotimi Atere     Onilorin Of Ilorin     SSUCOEN     Ajibike Katibi     Jide Ashonibare     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Face Masks     Yinka Aluko     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Muhammed Danjuma     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Ilorin Emirate     Sam Okaula     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Ekweremadu     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Aisha Buhari     Abraysports FC     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Adisa Logun     KWATMA     Rueben Parejo     Forgo Battery     UTME     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     KWSUED     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Aliyu Salihu     General Hospital     Jare Olatundun     Omotoso     Yakub Ali-Agan     Olatunji Ibrahim     Turaki     Shonga Farm Project     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Olaitan Adefila     Buhari     Yakubu Danladi     Saliu Alamoyo     Saka Abimbola Isau     Law School Scholarship     Overland     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency