The Joint Action Union of Local Government Workers in Kogi State
has rejected the 25 and 30 per cent salaries paid to local
government workers by the state government.
The union, which consists of the Nigeria Union of Local
Government Employees, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Medical and Health
Workers Union of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Pensioners and the
Non-Academic Staff Union, made this known on Sunday at the end of
its state administrative council meeting held in Lokoja.
While expressing displeasure over the way local government
workers were being treated by the government, the union said the
state government had failed to meet the demands of the workers
despite receiving April and May allocations from the Federal
Government.
It observed that local government pensioners received between 35
per cent and 50 per cent of their stipends, adding, “Workers in the
local government were expecting something better compared to what
they had been collecting in the past.”
The union urged the government to do the needful as workers at
the grass roots had been facing untold hardship for several
months.
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