Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) has mobilised its members for a three-day warning strike beginning today over alleged violation of labour laws and disregard for decent conditions of employment.
In a statement, the association disclosed that the decision was reached at its emergency National Administrative Council (NAC) meeting and further endorsed by its National Executive Council (NEC) in line with the directives of both organs.
Opeyemi Tomori, president of PTECSSAN, and Okonu Abdullahi, general secretary, said the strike had become inevitable due to increasing precarious working conditions in the sector and disregard for the nation’s laws and institutions by employers.
They said if their demands were not met before Monday, June 14, 2021 (today), the union would go ahead with the warning industrial action.
They alleged that workers in the sector were being treated like slaves in spite of their efforts to draw the attention of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy and the House Committee on Communications to their plight to no avail.
