- National Assembly workers have threatened to embark indefinite strike over poor condition of service
- They gave Senate president Bukola Saraki and the speaker of House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara, two weeks ultimatum to resolve the issues
- Jerry Agada, the director of information in the National Assembly, said the management has also made commitments in the area of arrears payment
The National Assembly chapter of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike due to poor conditions of service and management’s lackadaisical attitude to its demands.
Daily Trust reports that while rising from an emergency congress, the association gave the National Assembly management two weeks to address the issues raised or it would embark on the indefinite strike on December 14.
Legit.ng gathered that the association also resolved to picket the premises of the federal legislature from Tuesday, December 4, to Thursday, December 6, on issues bordering on Consolidated Legislative Salary Structure (CONLESS).
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They also said that both Senate president Bukola Saraki and speaker Yakubu Dogara, in line with their statutory mandate, should take urgent steps to nominate members of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC).
The workers said all pending staff promotions and conversion letters should be released with arrears due fully paid, while the 2018 promotion eligibility list be released and promotion exams conducted on or before December 31 this year.
But the director of information in the National Assembly, Jerry Agada, said that the management has been on the issue of CONLESS, adding that it is the release of the 2018 budget that was affecting the payment.
He said the management has also made commitments in the area of arrears payment for promotions and conducting new ones, noting that the Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Mohammed Sani-Omolori, had variously engaged the association on the issues.
The director noted that as long as they were not averse to the issues raised by the union, it was important that members of the association understood the various actions the management was taking to address the issues raised amicably.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that the cleaners in annex one and two of the National Assembly withdrew their services. National Assembly cleaners withdraw their services over non-payment of salaries.
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Their action was in protest of the assembly’s inability to pay their five months outstanding salaries. The workers are 22 in number. Spokesman of the workers, Victor Mordi, said their should not be seen as insensitive, but a way of demonstrating their displeasure over the non-payments of their entitlements.
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