Workers’ strike looms in Anambra as NLC, TUC meet over salary deductions

Tension is mounting successful Anambra authorities arsenic the organised Labour is poised to embark connected concern action, pursuing arbitrary deductions of workers’ salaries by the authorities without immoderate explanations.

The organised Labour, led by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, volition meet Thursday in Awka to strategise connected further action. 

The authorities civilian servants proceed to groan astatine the extremity of each period arsenic the bulk of them person acold little than their monthly payments.

According to immoderate of the workers who spoke with DAILY POST on Wednesday, arsenic overmuch arsenic N41,000 to N48,000 are deducted from their salaries each month, portion immoderate others person betwixt N25,000 and N40,000 deducted.

They said it each started erstwhile Governor Chukwuma Soludo threatened the workers due to the fact that of the Monday sit-at-home, wherever immoderate workers were suspended for up to six months without pay.

The workers are expressing increasing vexation implicit what they described arsenic persistent wage slashes contempt strict compliance with attendance, particularly on Mondays.

“Workers study to enactment regularly, particularly on Mondays when attendance monitoring is said to beryllium stricter, yet our salaries proceed to beryllium reduced monthly without wide explanations.

“The improvement has triggered wide dis...