Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola
The Joint Labour Unions in Osun on Wednesday blocked the entrance to the State Secretariat in Abere, Osogbo, preventing workers from going into their offices, to enforce the indefinite strike earlier announced on Friday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the union leaders and some of their members arrived at the Secretariat as early as 6 a.m. to ensure that no worker resumed work.
Speaking to newsmen at the gate of the secretariat, the Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Osun, Mr Jacob Adekomi, said the call for a strike was beyond payment of full salaries alone.
Adekomi said, “workers on Levels one to seven had not been promoted since 2012. Those promoted temporarily had not been confirmed and the civil service rules say after two years of appointment, you have to be confirmed.
“Conversion of appointment and promotion advancement had not been given to the workers and these among others are the things we are fighting for,” he said.
Labour enforces total strike in Osun
