The Kwara State chapters of the Trade Union Congress and the Nigeria Labour Congress on Tuesday said that industrial peace was a potent strategy for improved national productivity.

They called on Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed to address the demands of the organised labour in order to prevent a looming strike in the state.

The Chairman of TUC in the state, Mr. Olumoh Kolawole, and his NLC counterpart, Mr. Farouk Akanbi, spoke in Ilorin on the sideline of the TUC state council's 3rd triennial state delegates' conference.

Kolawole said the government should revisit the issue of relativity, adding that necessary adjustments should be done on workers' salaries.

"I want to let the state government to know that it is very necessary for them to summon us to a meeting so that we discuss the issues amicably. But if the state government is adamant and refuses to dialogue, if that is the option we have, we will be prepared to go on strike," he said.

Akanbi said some of the unions' grievances were: workers' annual increment, which should have commenced on January; and commensurate increase for workers from Level 17 and above on the Minimum Wage.

He added that other issues in contention were the Millennium Development Goals deduction; controversy on the  bank shares, which the government assisted the workers to purchase through loans, adding  that the workers had not received their certificates, talk-less of dividends, even after some years of repayment of the loans.

According to him, other areas of disagreement including the alleged payment of 50 per cent balance on the CONHESS for medical and health workers.

Akanbi also raised concerns Local Government pensioners and primary school level workers, and allowances for workers in the state owned media organisations, adding that these should be addressed.

He said that after the February 28 ultimatum, the National Executive Committee of the two labour unions would meet and issue a final ultimatum to the government.