NAFDAC workers call off strike

Health workers at the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have called off their nationwide strike warning that they would resume the strike if the Federal Govenent fails to fulfill its own part of the agreement reached within the next 10 days.

Speaking at a rally at the agency’s office in Lagos, the Chairman, Medical Health Workers Union , Federal  Area Council, Comrade Stephen Ibe, said the union decided to suspend the 14-days old strike after a fruitful deliberation with government officials at the Salary and Wages Commission; the Ministry of Labour and Productivity and NAFDAC’s board of directors.

His words: 

“We are giving them an opportunity to review and implement a new salary structure for NAFDAC workers. They have asked for 10 days and we are willing to give them that. The strike has been suspended and work resumes on Monday.

“We were pushed to the wall. We are a responsible union, but if government reneges on its decision to review the salary structure, we will continue the industrial action”

Ibe also requested a week grace for members of staff shortlisted to write promotion examinations saying that the notice for the examinations was sudden.

The NAFDAC workers had embarked on the nationwide strike on November 12 over unresolved wage structure and unpaid allowances.