The Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress has said the governor-elect, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, will be compelled to pay minimum wage and arrears of gratuities due to state workforce or be ready to face workers wrath.
NLC chairman in the state, Chinwe Orizu disclosed this on Monday during her new year message to workers of the state.
According to her Anambra State is yet to implement the new minimum wage and as a result, the state’s workforce has concluded plans to engage the state’s governor elect professor Soludo over the issue immediately after his swearing in on March 17, 2022.
She said Soludo would also be compelled arrears of gratuities owed retirees in the from 2018.
Calling for the unity of workers in the state to enable them to achieve their goal, Orizu raised the alarm over a plot to destabilized the workforce in the state.
She stated that there are media reports making the rounds which sets of impostors masquerading as labour leaders being sponsored to disorganize NLC in Anambra State. She revealed that the group have been disseminating malicious and false information to the general public and especially to Anambra State Workers claiming fake Chairmanship and Secretary of NLC in the state.
In view of this development, Comrade Orizu urged Workers in the state including the general public to disregard the antics of these impostors as any information peddled by them are illegal and bent on mortgaging the interest of workers in the state for their personal and selfish interests.
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