Bayelsa: Workers to Commence Indefinite Strike on Thursday over Unpaid Salaries

Workers in Bayelsa State will on Thursday commence to an indefinite strike over months of pay arears owed by the state government.

This is pretty much as the 21-day final offer issued by labour unions to the Bayelsa State Government to pay all exceptional compensations and remittances slipped by on Wednesday. The state Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had issued a final proposal to the administration on Thursday, April 28, 2016. 

The specialists are right now owed four months pay rates with beneficiaries being owed seven months unfulfilled obligations and neighborhood government boards laborers around 12 months unpaid pay rates. The NLC, and the TUC, in a joint meeting on Wednesday at the Council Secretariat in Yenagoa, determined that they could no more ensure the current modern congruity in the state.