{"id":102201,"date":"2021-11-03T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=102201"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T14:51:09","slug":"workers-shut-down-absuth-indefinitely-over-22-months-salary-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/03\/workers-shut-down-absuth-indefinitely-over-22-months-salary-arrears\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers shut down ABSUTH indefinitely over 22 months salary arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) Aba, has shut down operations at the state\u2019s apex health institution.<\/p>\n<p>The action followed the expiration of the warning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/10\/28\/strike-looms-in-varsities-as-ssanu-nasu-give-fg-ultimatum-over-earned-allowances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strike<\/a> issued by JAC to the Abia Government via a letter dated Oct. 20 and acknowledged by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Samuel Kalu, the Chairman of JAC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Aba, that organised labour in ABSUTH resolved to embark on the strike as the government did not meet their demands.<\/p>\n<p>The letter made available to NAN was signed by representatives of the unions.<\/p>\n<p>The unions are: Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Senior Staff Association of Universities Teaching Hospitals Research Institutes and Associated Institutions (SSAUTHRIAI).<\/p>\n<p>The letter states inter alia: \u201cWe the Joint Unions of ABSUTH under the Joint Action Committee (JAC) wish to inform the government that we have exhausted our patience and can no longer watch our members and their families die in penury due to non-payment of 22 months salary arrears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been made known to the government through previous notices especially the notice of April 15, 2021 and the subsequent suspension on April 16, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEqually, we wish to inform the government that for the past seven years, no pensioner in ABSUTH had been paid a dime and this cannot be allowed to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, the JAC gives the government seven days ultimatum to address these grievances or face an indefinite strike action from midnight of Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, to press home our demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kalu told NAN that the unions could no longer endure the treatment the state government was meting out to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe waited until now to announce this because we had been hoping that after everything, Abia Government will change its minds and obey an earlier agreement we entered to be paying us consistently and gradually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the state government still remained adamant and reneged on its own promise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe waited to this time because of the weekend and the sit-at-home in the South East and now, it is official that ABSUTH workers have resumed an indefinite strike because the government had not responded as expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have told them that if they are considerate to pay us five months arrears at once, we will consider the patients that need the services of the hospital and return but if not, the strike continues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH) Aba, has shut down operations at the state\u2019s apex health institution. 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