Telecoms workers begin warning strike tomorrow over anti-labour practices

Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has declared a three-day warning strike beginning from tomorrow.
General Secretary of the association, Okonu Abdullahi, said his members took the decision to protest arbitrary sacking of workers and casualisation.
Already, he said the group had commenced mobilisation of its members across the country for the industrial action.
Abdullahi accused the telecoms firms breach of freedom of association, right of workers to organise, victimisation of union members, poor and discriminatory remuneration, abuse of expatriate quota, intimidation, harassment and verbal assaults of employees among other anti-labour practices.
He said that subcontracting or outsourcing which had become a norm in the industry could no longer be allowed to continue as it had short-changed workers.
He said, “As we speak, all indications are that we should be going on a three-day warning of industrial action on Wednesday, 16th June 2021, as none of our demands have been met.
“We have tried speaking to the telecommunications companies at different times, but we met with a brick wall.”