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Breaking News: Kwara State-Owned Media Employees Initiate Strike Action Starting Tuesday
Breaking News: Kwara State-Owned Media Employees Initiate Strike Action Starting Tuesday....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
Employees of Kwara State-owned media, including The Herald Newspapers, Radio Kwara, Kwara TV, and Kwara State Arts and Culture, are poised to initiate a two-day warning strike on Tuesday and Wednesday. This move comes in response to the state government’s failure to recognize them and cultural workers as essential staff, as well as the government’s reluctance to implement a 100% essential allowance for the affected workers.
The joint notice, issued in Ilorin, the state capital, and signed by representatives from the National Union of Paper Products, Printing, and Publishing Workers (NUPPPROW) of The Herald newspapers, Radio, Television, and Theatre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU) of Radio Kwara, and the Kwara TV counterpart, highlighted various grievances. Among these are the demand for an immediate revision of the weigh-in allowance to align with the minimum wage of N30,000, a 27% increment based on grade level that remains unimplemented, and the non-implementation of the 2021 and 2022 promotion exercises.
The workers are also expressing discontent over the state government’s failure to address issues such as the lack of equipment and facilities overhaul in the media houses, annual increment anomalies, and career progression stagnation, which limits workers in Radio Kwara and Kwara TV to Level 16 cadre as the peak of their career in the civil service.
Additionally, the employees are protesting the imposition of junior officers as corporation secretaries and controllers of finance and supply, appointed from the Office of the Kwara State Head of Service and Ministry of Finance, respectively, without considering global best practices.
The decision to embark on the warning strike follows an extended period of dialogue and negotiations that have not yielded satisfactory outcomes, according to NUPPPROW, RATTAWU, and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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Source; Bushradiogist
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