Health workers, under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Ebute Meta, Lagos, yesterday protested non-payment of their promotion arrears since 2013 till date.
The health workers held the protest within the hospital premises.
It was gathered that the protest replaced a proposed congress scheduled for yesterday, where its leadership was expected to have briefed them on the outcome of its meeting with the hospital management.
The workers had on June 23, embarked on an indefinite strike over many outstanding issues including the non-payment of their 2013/2014 promotion arrears.
Mr Shehu Sulaiman, chairman, Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), FMC Ebute Meta chapter, said the management refused to listen to the workers.
“We went to the Budget Office in Abuja and we could not trace FMC,Ebute-Meta staff members on the list of outstanding arrears.
We had several meetings with our management but they were not successful, we are sure that our management collected the money.
Today, (yesterday) our intention was to hold a congress to decide the fate of the strike but our management organised some people among us to disrupt the congress.
They should have allowed a transparent congress but our management is playing a cat-and-dog game with us and we will not accept this.
We want the management to pay us our arrears because it has the money. We had a meeting with the management on July 13, where it came up with all sorts of threats to sue to the union.
We are being denied our welfare packages in spite of several consultations we have had with the hospital management”, he said.
Also, Mr Julius Achonwa, Chairman of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria FMC, Ebute Meta branch, said that the management was owing the workers but the most important was the promotional arrears.
He said that management denied that it had collected the money for promotional arrears and call-duty allowances.
“They sent management and the Union teams to the Budget Office ,Abuja to verify the true position of things , but their names are missing. There should be a thorough investigation either by the ICPC or the EFCC on this matter”, he said.
The calls made to the cell phone numbers of the Medical Director, Mrs Yewande Jinadu, for her comments on the development did not go through.(NAN)
By NAN
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