Workers Protest Non-Payment Of Arrears

Health workers under the
aegis of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESY) at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute Meta Lagos have protested against the non-payment of their promotion arrears since 2013 till date.
Reports says that the health workers held the protest within the hospital premises.
The protest replaced the proposed congress scheduled for today where its leadership was expected to have briefed them on the outcome of its meeting with the hospital management.
Reports also said that the workers had on June 23 embarked on an indefinite strike over many outstanding issues including the non-payment of their 2013/2014 promotion arrears.
They displayed placards with various inscriptions including: “Enough of Intimidation “, “Is It A Sin To Be Lecturers”, Yewande Jinadu,MD must go”, “ Pay us our call duty allowance”, “Why are we not on IPPIS” “Buhari save our souls at FMC, Ebute-Meta”, “High Tariff in government hospital ?“.
The Chairman, Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), FMC Ebute Meta chapter, Mr Shehu Sulaiman, said that the management had refused to give the workers a listening ear.
“We went to the Budget Office in Abuja and we could not trace FMC ,Ebute-Meta staff members on the list of outstanding arrears.
“We had several meetings with our management but they were not successful, we are sure that our management had collected the money.
He noted that their  intention was to hold a congress to decide the fate of the strike but our management organised some people among us to disrupt the congress, adding that  “they should have allowed a transparent congress but our management is playing a cat-and-dog relationship with us, we will not accept this.
“We want the management to pay us our arrears because it has the money, we had a meeting with the management on July 13, where it came up with all sorts of threats to the union.