NLC, CDWR urge government intervention over unpaid LAUTECH workers’ salaries

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) have urged the Federal Government to urgently intervene in the unpaid salaries of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) workers.

The Chairman of NLC Lagos State Council, Idowu Adelakan, said it is high time government intervened in the crisis between Osun and Oyo states over the unpaid salaries of workers.

He said: “Because an hungry man is a angry man’ the states can’t expect the workers after doing there work effectively not be paid by the employee and expect things to go own fine.”

He flayed the silence of both the Osun and Oyo states over the labour disagreement in the institution.

“Yet we keep saying the youths are the leaders of tomorrow and for over some months now the young minds have being out of studies just roaming around streets, I hope the state government as not forgotten a saying that an idle hand is the devils workshop,” he said.

On his part, the Publicity Secretary of Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Chinedu Bosah has condemned the attacks visited on Osun state indigenes working at the University, saying the attacks are uncalled for and totally unjustified as workers of the University from both states and any other states are victims of unpaid salaries.

“The inability of the Osun State government to fulfil its financial obligations to the University has nothing to do with Osun State indigenes working in the University but due to financial mismanagement by Osun State government. It is on record that both states have not only failed in the payment of salaries to workers of LAUTECH but to all civil and public servants in their respective states,” he explained.

CDWR appealed to workers of the LAUTECH not to allow politicians or any group to divide them along ethnic politics as the University.