Business Nigerian Senior Civil Servants Plan Fresh Strike

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The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) says it will call its members in the Federal Public Service out on strike if the Federal Government continues to dilly dally over the association’s demands for FG to address the avalanche of welfare issues affecting its members. DAILY INDEPENDENT reports.

The fresh strike to be embarked upon by the Association is coming barely one month after the activities at the Headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education, the Inspectorate Offices, and the 104 Federal Unity Colleges (FUCs) were paralyzed for four weeks over non-payment of promotion arrears and other allowances.

Speaking to newsmen on Sunday, ASCSN’s Secretary General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, said: “Our Association uses this fresh strike warning to draw the attention of the general public to the fact that the Federal Government had refused to enter into meaningful dialogue with the Association to address lingering labour issues captured in 12 memoranda and placed before the Government since March this year.

“This is because since March, 2014, all efforts by the Union to bring the Federal Government to the negotiating table to discuss the labour issues contained in the twelve memoranda have been frustrated by strategic government agencies including the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), saddled with the responsibility of handling welfare issues of workers.”

According to Alade, the issues in dispute include; the non-payment of promotion arrears and other entitled allowances of workers, demand for the upward wage review in the Civil Service, payment of civil servants rent allowance en-bloc, payment of end-of-year incentives to all public servants, upward review of retirement age in the civil service, payment of special allowance to civil servants engaged in teaching, including those teaching in the Federal Unity Colleges.

“Other grievances are; non-payment of first 28 days allowance in lieu of hotel accommodation, the vexed issue of conducting promotion examinations in the public service at mid night, non-payment of allowances in respect of 2010 mandatory training programme organised by the OHCSF, payment of responsibility allowance to officers in the directorate cadre in the civil service,” he said.

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