Ibadan — The face-off between the Oyo State Government and the state workforce over 'ideal minimum' wage, last night took a fresh dimension as the workers insisted that the state government has no power to sack the 34,000 strong workforce.
The state government had last week declared the positions of the workers vacant and called for applications from interested members of the public to fill the vacancies with a payment of N1,000 application fee. But addressing newsmen in Ibadan , Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) Alhaji Bashir Apapa, said labour was undaunted by the action of the government.
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