Daily Independent (Lagos)
Bassey Inyang
20 November 2008
Calabar — Members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) are poised to embark on fresh nationwide strike again.
This followed what has been ascribed to the inability of the Federal Government and workers in the union to resolve some contending issues affecting the latter.
Though the union suspended the nationwide strike it embarked upon in March this year, its leadership gave indication recently in Calabar that if nothing was done by Abuja to address the areas of complaints before the end of the month, members would embark on another strike.
National president of JUSUN, Usamatu Aminu, who spoke on the issue while in Calabar for an official assignment, said for months after both parties resolved to address areas of mutual conflicts through the committee established by Federal Judicial Service Commission, nothing had been forth-coming from the government.
Aminu said since the language the Federal Government understands was strike, members would use it to the best of their ability.
According to him, members of JUSUN would not compromise the Judicial Service Structure (JSS), which was one of its outstanding demands.
"We have such a disturbing silence from the government that we don't know our fate; we don't know where we are and now that we are pushed to the wall, we don't know what to tell our people," he said.
Aminu said the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union met on November 7 and November 8 in Brinin-Kebbi, Kebbi State, where it deliberated on the next line of action concerning their demands that were yet to be met by the Federal Government.
However, he said for the issues at stake to be resolved amicably, the Federal Government, through the committee, should invite the leadership of the union for further talk.
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