The Lagos Chapter of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has decided to resume partially.
This, it said, was based on a meeting with stakeholders during which 70 percent of their demands were met.
JUSUN Lagos Chairman, Asiwaju Shobowale Kehinde, confirmed their auxillary demands are being speedily looked into and results manifesting.
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He said they had many interactions on the industrial action with State chairmen especially from the southwest, Southeast and south south regions.
He noted it was only Lagos State Government that has shown concerns with the JUSUN struggle.
Shobowale said judicial workers in Lagos have resolved to be on strike on Mondays and Tuesdays and open the courts between Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Meanwhile, Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) were on Tuesday, 20th April 2021, left stranded as the meeting proposed to settle the probem between them and the Federal Government did not hold because Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige was absent.
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The meeting was scheduled for 3pm but Ngige, who serves as the conciliator, was not at the venue when the workers left after waiting for almost two hours.
JUSUN National Public Relations Officer Comrade Koin Selepreye said it was wrong for the minister to keep them waiting when the invitation said the meeting would start by 3pm.
She added that the union would always be available for any meeting to resolve the strike, but said members will not accept it when the meeting time is not respected.
National President of PASAN Comrade Mohammed Usman berated Ngige for ‘the unfair treatment meted to the workers’. He said they respect time and won’t accept being kept waiting.
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Efforts by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Peter Yarfa, and Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Ita Enang, to prevail on the unions to return for the meeting were unsuccessful.
But Ngige, in a statement, explained that the meeting was postponed to enable the government’s negotiating team harmonise all issues from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) reached at separate meetings with tiers and arms of government.
Ngige said this was necessary to ensure the meeting with the unions come with a Memorandum of Action which is implementable with time lines.
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