By Ismaila Jimoh, Abuja
FCT Area Councils staff including the primary school teachers resumed their hitherto suspended strike over failure of the chairmen of the six Area Councils of the territory to implement the N70, 000 new minimum wage.
The announcement to this effect was made at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday which was
organised by the joint union of the Nigeria Union of Teachers and Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, FCT chapters orders it members in all the six Area Councils to resume the suspended strike.
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, FCT wing, Comrade Mohammed Shafas who addressed the newsmen explained that the unions took the decision to return back to the industrial action having exhausted all internal diplomatic mechanism which failed to yield any positive result.
He added that the six council chairmen had also failed to respond to other outstanding demands of its members, such as 40 percent peculiar allowance, 25 and 35 percent salary increments and 35 pecent wage award.
Shafa threatened that the industrial action will continue until the area council chairmen commence implementation of the N70,000 minimum wage for both primary school teachers and staff of the six area councils.
He decried the situation where all civil servants in the FCT have started receiving the N70,000 new minimum wage, yet the area council chairmen have not deemed it fit to implement the increment at the council level despite the December 9th, 2024 agreement.
“The joint union of the FCT NUT and the FCT NULGE has unanimously resolved and directed all the primary school teachers and staff of the six area councils in the FCT to, with effect from Thursday, February 13, 2025, resume the suspended strike action until their demands are met”.
“It is saddening to note that all the six area council chairmen have reneged on the agreement they signed on December 9, 2024, to implement the new minimum wage by January, 2025,” the joint union said.
