Union Kicks Against Members’ NHF Deductions

The leadership of National
Union of Hotels and Personal Service Workers (NUHPSW) has kicked against any further attempt to go ahead with the deductions from its members’ salary for the National Housing Fund.
In a statement released to The Tide in Port Harcourt on Wednesday at the Union’s Secretariat the union said any continuous deduction would be vehemently opposed by the union.
The union’s statement signed by its National President Comrade Leke Success Lamented that no worker in the private sector had benefited from the NHF as the deduction earlier made by the union members were never accounted for.
Leke said the union totally reject the NHF deduction since it is of no benefit to the union stressing that it may be that the NHF’s policy benefit public sector workers’ but certainly not private sector workers.
He said the union reasoned that with the precarious situation of jobs in the private sector where employers sack at will and permanent jobs being flagrantly casualised without recourse to dialogue with the workers’ representatives, workers would be at the receiving end.
The union’s president added that the leadership are not unnecessarily being rigid but see that members of the union have no future in such NHF’s project.
He queried the NHF reason for giving a loan of about N1.5 million to each contributor while in some towns in the country a plot of land can be above N1 million, stressing that how much is then left for building in present day Nigeria reality.
Leke explained that the NHF has not impacted positively on the workers since its inception, adding that this situation has now made the workers skeptical about the new package by the fund.