NAN WORKERS BEGIN 3-DAYS WARNING STRIKE AT MIDNIGHT

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Managing Director of NAN, Mr. Bayo Onanuga

Admin l Tuesday, July 24, 2018

LAGOS, Nigeria – With effect from Midnight on Wednesday, May 25, 2018, staff of News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) will embark on a 3-day warning strike to press home their demand for management to pay staff all allowances due and effect upward review of salaries and emoluments.




The warning strike is being coordinated by three unions, Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Almagamated Union of Civil Service Public Coporation, Technical and Recreational Service Employees (AUCPTRE) and Radio and Radio Television and Theatre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU), who had earlier written to Management, giving a 7-day notice to address the union demands, failing which they will embark on a 3-day warning strike.

The demands of staff include: implementation of Condition of Service that has been in place 16 years ago, Payment of Promotion Arrears for 2012,
and 2017 and payment of shortfall of promotion arrears of 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Others demands are payment of DTA and hotel allowances to staff that left their base(South Africa, United States, United Kingdom etc) to write the 2018 Promotion Examination in Lagos and Abuja and payment of repatriation allowances of foreign correspondents. Also in the demands of the union are training of staff to enhance efficiency and effectiveness, payment of overtime arrears for drivers and arrears of Transportation Allowance for staff of editorial department.

But at a meeting on Tuesday, Managing Director of NAN, Mr. Bayo Onanuga had appealed to staff to shelve the strike and that the civil service rule, no work, no pay would apply if they decide to embark on the strike.

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