Organised labour in Ekiti has issued a seven-day strike notice to the state Assembly over alleged irregular disengagement of some of its staff.

The notice, handed over to the Speaker, Funminiyi Afuye, threatened to involve all workers in the state on Wednesday.

In the notice, labour asked the Speaker to cause the immediate reinstatement of 21 workers of the Assembly, allegedly disengaged by the House of Assembly Service Commission (HASC), early in the year.

It threatened that workers across the state would commence an indefinite strike from Wednesday, March 10, should the Assembly fail to recall the affected workers.

Jobs of the affected workers were in January terminated over what they called their illegal recruitment into the service by the immediate past administration.

Copies of the letter, dated Mach 3, 2021, were made available to journalists on Wednesday. 

It was signed by the Nigerian Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress, and the Joint Negotiating Council.

The labour unions said the state leadership of the organised labour had waited patiently enough for the Ekiti State House of Assembly’s leadership to address this issue of 21 sacked workers by recalling them but to no avail.

“Consequently, the entire civil servants of Ekiti State, through the organised labour leadership, are hereby demanding for the immediate reinstatement of the 21 sacked workers of the House of Assembly within seven days from Thursday, March 4, 2021.”