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The Rivers State chapter of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) has suspended its planned industrial action.
This followed the intervention of the state councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
Leaders of the NLC and TUC had on Monday, November 6, 2017 paid a visit to PASAN and the Rivers State House of Assembly Service Commission, during which the parties involved agreed to allow the umbrella labour bodies to midwife negotiations between PASAN and the management of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
Part of the issues under contention, according to PASAN, is the nonpayment of statutory four years allowances as well as very poor working conditions and staff welfare in the Assembly.
Our reporter gathered that before the NLC-TUC intervention, PASAN was on the verge of a three-day warning strike that would have led to a total shut down and downing of tools by workers of the Assembly.
Workers of the Rivers State House of Assembly, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), had issued a 14 -day ultimatum to the management of the Assembly to pay the 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 outfit/ committee allowances and other outstanding welfare issues due them.
Chapter chairman of PASAN, Comrade Okeleke Louis, who made the decision known to newsmen after their congress, said the ultimatum was in line with Nigeria’s Labour laws and procedures.
He had at the briefing with newsmen called on the governor of Rivers State, Chief (Barr.) Nyesom Ezenwo Wike to “in his usual manner come to the rescue of staff of the Rivers State House of Assembly.”
Asked then about his new look, Louis said it is a “protest beard that will go off as soon as the allowances are paid.”
