Revealed! Power outages loom as electricity workers plan strike

• Electricity workers successful Nigeria, represented by the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), person announced plans to resume strike
• The onslaught follows the company's nonaccomplishment to conscionable demands regarding unpaid pensions, non-implementation of the National Minimum Wage, and mediocre moving conditions
• The unions person warned that the onslaught could pb to a blackout successful Abuja and different states served by AEDC, including Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

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Electricity workers affiliated with the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies and the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) person announced their volition to spell connected strike, causing an impending blackout successful Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

Electricity workers announced their volition to spell connected strike. Photo Credit: Contributor
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The strike, according to the 2 unions representing the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), is simply a effect of the firm’s nonaccomplishment to code their demands aft different onslaught was suspended successful November 2024.

According to Daily Trust, AEDC provides vigor to the states of Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Workers picketed AEDC's offices during the halted onslaught successful November, but an statement was reached connected the time the onslaught began.

To notify absorption that the onslaught would statesman connected immoderate day, the national sent abstracted letters to the Managing Director of AEDC, signed by SSAEAC's Deputy General Secretary (Corporate Communications) and Opaluwa Eleojo Simeon, Assistant General Secretary, Liaison for NUEE, respectively.

The missive read:

“Recall that we reached an statement with you connected the 27th of November 2024, to suspend an concern enactment pursuing a commercialized quality declared implicit lingering labour issues successful the institution (see transcript attached). “It is besides pertinent to punctual you of immoderate of these issues: Non-remittance of pension deductions for 16 months. Non-implementation of the National Minimum Wage. Non-promotion and the continuous stagnation of members of unit for implicit 10 years. Non-confirmation of unit connected acting appointments. Non-regularisation and improper placement of appointments. Refusal to person Ad-hoc unit to imperishable status.“The implicit illness of wellness services owing to the non-payment of infirmary bills. Non-remittance of 10 months’ PAYE. Refusal to implicit the enactment connected the reappraisal of conditions of service. Non-implementation of the already completed enactment connected vocation paths. Undue committee interference with the day-to-day moving of the company. Non-payment of national check-off dues and different third-party deductions, and non-payment of the 2024 productivity bonus.”

It further stated that, contempt the workforce producing N94 cardinal for the corp successful the erstwhile ninety days, the demands had not been addressed.

They said that committed services without the availability of indispensable operating materials and business districts that are nary longer subsidised were liable for reaching this milestone.

The looming onslaught is simply a effect of the firm’s nonaccomplishment to code their demands aft different onslaught was suspended successful November 2024. Photo Credit: Contributor
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“It is besides worthy of enactment that we person importantly mislaid a immense fig of members to decease owing to unit and precarious enactment conditions.

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