The Nigerian Union of Railway Workers has declared a three-day warning strike to demand for improved welfare.
Railway workers will embark on the industrial action from November 18 to November 20, 2021, the union said in a letter November 12, 2021, and signed by NUR President General, Innocent Ajiji, and other excos.
The letter was titled, ‘Notice and Directive to embark on 3-day warning strike nationwide’.
According to the letter sent to the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Fidet Okhiria, and the Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, the labour unions said their “agitation for enhanced salary cannot be overemphasized as it is an open secret that the salary regime of the Nigerian Railway workers is the worst and most incomprehensible of all salary structures available to the parastatals under the supervision of the federal ministry of transport.”
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“The Honorable Minister of Transport once acceded to the fact that Nigerian Railway workers can easily be identified from the crowd by the way they look and dress which he meant to be strikingly suggestive of the very poor salary paid in the corporation,” the letter read.
“It baffles us so much that the Federal Government spends billions of dollars on building rail transport infrastructure and transforming the system to a modern railway system but with no dint of impact or improvement in the welfare of the workers in terms of improved remuneration.
