NAFDAC workers embark on strike
Health workers at the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Thursday, embarked on a seven-day warning strike.
The workers are members of the Medical and Health Workers Union.
The union is demanding the payment of promotion arrears for 2018 and 2019 promotions owed its members; amongst other pending issues.
The union in a statement said it is demanding the upward review of job specific allowance in line with minimum wage.
According to the union, every allowance increases correspondingly with salary increase but unfortunately, this has not been so about the Job Specific Allowance.
It also said the agency’s management hides under COVID-19 to avoid training of staff, even though training has resumed in other MDA’s.
“The Union demands immediate resumption of training for their members.
“The Union is alarmed at the rate at which financial claims by staff are delayed without reasons given for non-payment not even to communicate the affected staff,” It said.
“The Union particularly frowns at the poor conditions of staff buses used by staff and in some cases, some routes where staff live do not have buses. It is worthy of note, to state here that, the NAFDAC Management is more concern with the procurement of Hilux Vehicles, as the Management recently purchased well over 50 Hilux Vehicles.”
The union also laments the discriminatory payment of COVID-19 allowance by percentage as used by NAFDAC and or the non -payment of some staff.
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FG shelves planned meeting with ASUP, JUSUN
The Nigerian government has shelved the planned meetings with the striking polytechnic lecturers and Judiciary workers which was scheduled to hold on Thursday.
This was announced by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan in a statement in Abuja.
The government gave no reason for the cancellation of the meetings, which aimed at getting the members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to call off their indefinite strike action.
The government gave no reason for the cancellation of the meetings, which aimed at getting the members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) to call off their indefinite strike action.
ASUP is demanding the implementation of the 2014 NEEDS Report, release of revitalisation fund to the sector, and the reconstitution of governing councils in federal polytechnics and state-owned institutions, among other things.
While JUSUN is demanding financial autonomy for the judiciary and the implementation of Executive Order 10 signed by President Muhammdu Buhari, in May last year.
The polytechnics and the courts had been shut down following the strike action by the lecturers and the judicial workers.
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