{"id":9227,"date":"2016-05-24T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2016-05-24T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T10:55:41","slug":"bayelsa-nlc-continues-strike-despite-sack-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9227","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa NLC Continues Strike Despite Sack Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaymu.com.ng\/computers-laptops-gaming\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=84f4a1bf&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=84f4a1bf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/84f4a1bf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=84f4a1bf\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The Bayelsa State chapter\u00a0of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday\u00a0said that it will continue its strike over non payment of salary since January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Seriake Dickson had\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0ordered the striking workers to resume work\u00a0on Monday\u00a0or be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson, who said that the state had no funds due to dwindling revenue from the federation account, threatened that he would invoke the \u201cno work no pay rule\u201d, against Civil Servants who refused to go back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strike is unpatriotic, it is politically motivated and uncalled for,\u00a0 we have held several meetings with labour leaders and I have proposed many options to them including paying 50 per cent salary but they rejected it and chose to go on strike.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BEGIN JUMIA --><a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsc?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.53756&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsv?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.53756&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" alt=\"NG-[C:G.Prom,B:Allbrand,Wk:2116,Dim:300X250]:Mobile_Week\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- END JUMIA --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have drawn the line and we give them till\u00a0Monday, any one that doesn\u2019t show up should consider himself sacked, we shall send out a monitoring team, I will also go round myself,\u201d Dickson said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr John Ndiomu, Chairman of the NLC in the state said in Yenagoa\u00a0on Monday\u00a0that the strike, which commenced on May 19, would not be called-off until the government clear the backlog of salaries.<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that the organised labour in Bayelsa embarked on strike over the non-payment of four months\u2019 salary arrears of civil servants in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strike is on it third day, and we\u2019re still on it; it is true that the state government has started the payment for January alone but we will continue to stay at home until the union reaches a decision,\u201d the chairman stated.<\/p>\n<p>The state secretariat, public schools and banks have remained shut while soldiers have been at the gates of the secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/icirnigeria.org\/<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dickson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9228\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dickson.jpg\" alt=\"Dickson\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dickson.jpg 412w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dickson-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konga.com\/backtoschool?utm_source=affiliates&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_term=backtoschool&amp;utm_content=04_04_2016&amp;utm_campaign=backtoschool&amp;k_id=Omafume&amp;k_bid=8c6fe3b5\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/konga.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/bo3dhla\/8c6fe3b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/konga.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/io3dhla?k_id=Omafume&amp;k_bid=8c6fe3b5\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bayelsa State chapter\u00a0of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Monday\u00a0said that it will continue its strike over non payment of salary since January 2016. Gov. Seriake Dickson had\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0ordered the striking workers to resume work\u00a0on Monday\u00a0or be sacked. Dickson, who said that the state had no funds due to dwindling revenue from the federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[435,2024,2025,1691],"class_list":["post-9227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-bayelsa-state","tag-gov-seriake-dickson","tag-john-ndiomu","tag-nigeria-labour-congress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dickson.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2oP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}