Civil servants in Ondo State are set to begin an
indefinite strike on Wednesday should the state
government fails to pay all outstanding deductions
made from their salaries for months.


The State Chairman of the Joint Public Service
Negotiating Council, Comrade Sunday Adeleye, stated
this while speaking to journalists on Monday, in
Akure, the state capital.

Adeleye said the industrial action would go ahead as
the workers had last week issued a seven-day
ultimatum to the state government, which expires on
Tuesday.

He said unless the government responds to the
workers’ request by Tuesday, the strike would begin
on Wednesday.

He added, “We have been meeting with the
representatives of the state government since last
week after issuing a statement of a seven-day
ultimatum and it(meeting) was all deadlock.

“But if by Tuesday, the state government fails to yield
to our demand, the union will have no other option
than to call a congress by Wednesday and a total
strike action be declared.”

The labour leader lamented that the cooperative
societies for workers had died a natural death due to
non-release of workers deductions to the societies,
saying these were additional means the workers used
to survive.

Adeleye had earlier noted in a statement that non-
payment of all deductions from the salary of the
workers’ showed government’s insensitivity to the
plight of civil servants in the state.