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ALSCON workers strike over salary increase
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Workers of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State have started a strike action demanding for the implementation of a 25 percent salary increase.
The workers have been on strike for about a week but wont return to work until the 25 percent "collective agreement reached between the workers and management is signed and implemented."
The striking workers claimed the management had earlier accepted to implement the salary increment but backed down at the last minute citing lack of budgetary provisions.
The chairman of ALSCON joint labour movement, Kelechi Otuh, said that while the management had agreed to implement the 25 per cent salary increment on the basic salary, workers were insisting that it should be across the board, adding that what the workers were asking for amounted to "a little over N3, 000 to each of the workers."
The company is run by Rusal, a Russian firm which won the bid to take over its operations under the federal government privatisation scheme in 2007
The workers have been on strike for about a week but wont return to work until the 25 percent "collective agreement reached between the workers and management is signed and implemented."
The striking workers claimed the management had earlier accepted to implement the salary increment but backed down at the last minute citing lack of budgetary provisions.
The chairman of ALSCON joint labour movement, Kelechi Otuh, said that while the management had agreed to implement the 25 per cent salary increment on the basic salary, workers were insisting that it should be across the board, adding that what the workers were asking for amounted to "a little over N3, 000 to each of the workers."
The company is run by Rusal, a Russian firm which won the bid to take over its operations under the federal government privatisation scheme in 2007
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