FCTA Secretariat Under Lock, As JUAC Enforces Strike Action

The Joint Union Action Committee, JUAC of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has locked the entrance of the FCTA Secretariat in compliance with the indefinite industrial action embarked by the labour union.

President of JUAC, Mrs Rifkatu Lortyer, said the committee’s decision to deny workers access to the Secretariat was in compliance with the NLC and TUC directive.

The action, according to the unions, was over the failure of the Federal Government to increase the N60,000 minimum wage it offered to workers and its refusal to reverse the recent increase in electricity tariff.

Lortyer explained that JUAC, being part of the labour unions, had no choice but to fully enforce the strike.

“My advice to FCTA workers is simple: stay at home and be the obedient workers you have always been.The strike action is for the interest of the Nigerian workers,” she said.

The labour unions had during the May Day celebration issued the Federal Government an ultimatum to ensure that negotiations on a new national minimum wage was concluded by May 31.

The President of TUC, Festus Osifo, told newsmen that the strike had become necessary as the government declined to increase the N60,000 wage it offered on Friday during the meeting of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage.

Osifo also said that the strike was imperative due to the refusal of the government to reverse the hike in electricity tariff.

Remi Johnson, Edited By Grace Namiji