The leadership of the Taraba State branch of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, have expressed sadness over the inability of the state government to pay the outstanding six months’ salaries of local government staff.
They also complained of the non-payment of yearly increment that has allegedly been suspended for three years.
The workers who made their position known on Monday at the 2023 May Day celebration, held at the Jolly Nyame stadium in Jalingo, called on the government to settle the backlog of gratuities for retirees in the state from the year 2000 to 2015.
The state chairman of the NLC, Comrade Peter Jediel, expressed worry that the inability of the government to capture over one thousand retirees in the monthly pension has become a nightmare not only to the retirees but the entire workers in the state.
He implored the state government to hasten the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers in the state to boost their morale and enhance maximum productivity in the civil service.
Jediel also called out the alleged failure of the government to train and retain public workers, saying, “We also want the government to focus on training and retraining of civil servants in the state, this becomes imperative to enable them to cope with current trends and developments in the civil service”.
The workers asked the government to lift the embargo on dues meant for the state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, saying it has becomes imperative to enable the union carry out its statutory responsibilities.
“All over the country, there is only one Nigerian Union of Teachers and it is only in Taraba State that we have the Association of Universal Basic Education Teachers as an Association, the NLC complained.
The workers who stressed their readiness to ensure greater unity among the Organised Labour in the state, said that can only be achieved if a peace process is initiated.
Taraba is among the few states that have not implemented the federal government-approved N30,000 minimum wage.
Taraba workers demands payment of local government outstanding salaries, others
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