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  • 1500 council workers threaten to leave NULGE

    1500 council workers threaten to leave NULGE

    Local government workers of Umuahia North local government, totalling over 1,500, have threatened to withdraw their membership of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) in protest over the alleged imposition of union chairman by politicians in government.

    Speaking with journalists in Umuahia, spokesman of the aggrieved workers, Comrade Dick Nwosu, and a chairmanship candidate, said the situation was worsened by the inability of the state leadership of NULGE to resist the pressure from politicians to take over union leadership.

    Nwosu said that the leadership of the union in the state has been under immense pressure to allow politicians take over the union while he had been approached and threatened to either step down or have himself to blame.

    He said, “Let the politicians steer clear of NULGE elections and allow workers to choose their leaders, and that the state leadership of NULGE had confessed that they were “in a tight corner” to the interested politicians who are bent on having their way.”

    The workers had on Monday boycotted the NULGE poll after the popular candidate was prevented from contesting the election through what they described as “spurious transfer” four days to the election.

    However, about 126 workers had participated in the contentious poll supervised by the state NULGE secretary, Comrade Peter Ene, during which the alleged “government candidate”, Comrade Chukwuemeka Iruoma was declared elected unopposed despite the mass boycott of the poll.

    Despite his alleged wining of the election, he was never sworn in as the chairman of the union in Umuahia North council, Ene and said there are still things to sort out before he could be sworn in to take charge.

     

  • Ekiti NULGE announces ceasefire, resume tomorrow

    WORKERS across the 16 councils of Ekiti State will resume work tomorrow.

    Announcing a ceasefire at the weekend, officials of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) said the suspension of the two-month strike was consequent on the willingness of the state to pay N19, 012 minimum wages fixed by the Federal Government.

    President of NULGE in the state, Comrade Dele Ajayi, said the government has agreed to commence payment of the wages with effect from 1st November, 2012.

    Government’s team, according to him, comprised the Commissioner for Labour, Productivity and Human Capital Development, Mr. Wole Adewumi and his counterpart at the Local Government Ministry, Chief Dayo Fadipe, alongside officials of the Federal Ministry of Labour.

    Ajayi disclosed that the agreement also include the decision of the “government to credit accounts of the 16 councils for payment of September and October salaries before Wednesday, 14th November, 2012.”

    He disclosed further that government, through the agreement, also consented to paying the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Salary Scale (CONHESS) to health workers at the councils.

    He equally noted “the method for the payment of both the minimum wage and CONMESS/CONHESS arrears, according to the pact, should be determined by the joint committee of government and NULGE.”

    The union leader added that all genuine health workers at the councils would be deployed to the newly created Primary Health Care Development Agency.