Organised Labour in Ogun state on Friday announced the call-off of its seven days warning strike.
This comes after a closed door meeting between the state government and leadership of the organised Labour at the governor’s office in Oke-Mosan Abeokuta where extensive deliberations were made on each of the workers’ requests.
Wokers in the state had on Wednesday declared a warning strike due to state government refusal to implement wokers new minimum wage, payment of gratuity, arrears amongst others.
In a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly singed by representatives of the government and the Organised Labour after the meeting, the Labour Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Bankole says the issues that triggered the strike had been acknowledged and considered thoroughly, hence, the decision to call off the strike.
Bankole announced that the state government agreed to commence implementation of the new minimum wage, effective from October 2020.
The Labour Chairman also announced government readiness to commence payment of gratuity, commencement of outstanding promotion from 2018 to 2020 and other demand by the organised labour.
He stresses that the meeting also agreed to suspend actions on the proposed year 2020 pension amendment bill with plan to set up committed, comprising both representatives of government and labour side to take an in-depth look into the issue.
Speaking earlier, the Secretary to the state government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi noted that, the past three days of the strike action has created tension in the state.
Talabi said the state government and labour have shifted ground irrespective of their differences
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