by Ranti Joseph
Workers in Ekiti state public service are presently not on the same page regarding an upcoming strike.
A section of the workers have vowed not to participate in any politically-motivated strike intended to drag them into the politics of impeachment currently rocking the state.
The workers acting under the aegis of Enlightened Workers’ Forum, asked for the payment of outstanding salaries, bonuses and other entitlements owed them by the state government.
In a statement issued on Friday by the Forum’s Coordinator, Mike Bamidele, they warned Labour leaders against colluding with politicians to engineer a strike to frustrate the impeachment proceedings already launched by the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers in the state.
They called on the state councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Joint Negotiation Council (JNC) to concentrate on fighting for the interests of the workers rather than dabbling into partisan politics.
They also called on the unions to drop their ambition of politics and exert pressure on the Ayo Fayose administration to pay worker’ salaries, leave bonus and accumulated pensions and gratuities of retirees charging the unions to champion the implementation of 2013 and 2014 outstanding promotions.
The Forum also warned the state government against reducing workers’ salaries over shortfall in allocation from the Federation Account.
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