Uneasy calm rages within the
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) as the teeming workers across the
federation have given the management 21 days ultimatum within which to effect
improvement in their conditions of service.
In the alternative, the workers
have threatened to down tools nationwide.
This is the outcome of the
just-concluded meeting of the NYSC National Coordinating Committee of the
Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, technical and
Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), which has been negotiating with
management on the issues at stake.
A communiqué issued at the end of
the meeting, which was jointly signed by Comrades Olufemi Wahab and Isaac
Maikur, Chairman and Secretary respectively, lamented that the NYSC Director
General, Brig.-Gen. Nnamdi Okorie-Affia was yet to respond to the series of
letters from the union, in which they had catalogued their grievances, particularly
as regards the welfare of the workers.
Notable amongst their grievances,
according to the communiqué, include the subsisting NYSC Conditions of Service
which they alleged was defective; the continued non-payment of 28 days in lieu
of Hotel Accommodation for officers on transfer; short payments of transfer
claims of some officers; the slashing to 50 per cent of the passing out
allowances to staff during the last passing out without any previous
negotiation or information; as well as the demand for an upward review
of the camp allowance for subsequent orientation programmes.
The communique however urged the
Director General and the management of the NYSC Scheme to “see the Union as a
stakeholder and not as enemy in order to ensure good, industrial and harmonious
relationship.”
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