Unpaid Salaries: Ondo workers set for showdown with Akeredolu

Workers in the Ondo State Public Service have threatened to go on strike over government’s failure to pay their outstanding salaries.

The workers are also demanding for their leave bonus and other entitlements pending over the years.

They also issued a five-day ultimatum to the state government to call for negotiations or the workers will go on strike.

The workers under the auspices of the Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), in a letter dated 10th July, 2020, gave Governor Akeredolu till Wednesday 15th July, 2020 to do the needful.

Their decision to enbark on an industrial action was contained in a letter to the governor and jointly signed by state Chairman of Joint Negotiating Council (JNC), Comrade Oluwaniyi Fabunmi and the State Secretary, JNC, Comrade Kehinde Olomiye.

The letter reads in part: “We write to bring to your attention the already ‘gathered cloud’ of very serious impending Labour/Government face-off which will be the very first in the life of your administration as the elected Governor of Ondo state”.