Journalists want agreement on new salary
The Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ)
and Radio and Television Theatre and Arts Workers Union of Nigeria, on
Monday, in Abuja, urged the Federal Government to put in place concrete
agreements for the implementation of the new Media Salary Structure.
The President of the NUJ, Mohammed Garba, made the appeal while
monitoring Federal Government media houses in Abuja, to ensure the
enforcement of the unions’ three-day warning strike. Members of the
union on Monday embarked on the exercise, to compel the Federal
Government to enforce a new Media Salary Structure. Garba, however,
said there had not been any agreement reached with the government on
the implementation of the salary. He said the unions met with the
Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili, during which
a committee of all heads of the agencies signed the salary structure.
“We sent it to the Federal Government
since April and nothing has happened. If there is no concrete agreement
reached between the unions and the Federal Government, I want to assure
you that by tomorrow the strike will be total. We will close down NTA
and FRCN that are offering skeletal services’.
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