Ebonyi State civil servants have been directed by Labour unions in the state to embark on a one-week warning strike to demand payment of their salaries.
The directive was handed down on Friday in Abakaliki by labour unions.
Ebonyi Civil servants and the State Government have been having a running battle over the payment of the 50 per cent salary structure implemented by the immediate-past administration.
However, the current administration decided to pay just 35 per cent salary, insisting that it would not pay the 50 per cent structure after paying it in June.
The labour unions, through a bulletin in Abakaliki, directed workers to stay at home and pray for God’s intervention in the matter.
“We should pray that God will touch the heart of the government to pay the negotiated, deserved and agreed wage structure we entered with it on April 9, 2015.
“The salary table approved by the government and established in a circular No. 3/2015 with Ref: No. HOS/EPM/OO74/20, dated April 9 with effect from February, remains sacrosanct and irreversible.
“The State Government, led by Chief Dave Umahi, is unwilling to pay workers based on the agreed table when the economic reality shows that it can comfortably pay it and execute projects,” the bulletin read.
The unions also accused the committee set up by the government to resolve the issue of compromising in the recommendations contained in the report it submitted to the government on September 2.
“The recommendations in the report were without recourse to organised labour’s submission based on the state’s economic realities,” it read.
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