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Further strikes by UK energy workers
Following a five-day strike, engineers and office staff at energy company British Gas, owned by Centrica, held a further strike on Wednesday with another due today.
The GMB union members voted by an 89 percent majority for action. They are opposed to the company’s plans to “fire and rehire,” putting workers on a contract with less favourable conditions and 20 percent pay cut. Those involved in the strike included 4,000 service and repair gas engineers, 1,700 smart metering engineers, 600 central heating installers, 540 electrical engineers and 170 specialist business gas engineers. The strikers carried out socially distanced pickets throughout the country.
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Retired teachers protest unpaid gratuity, pension in Osun
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By Shina Abubakar
Many retired teachers in Iwo, Osun State under the contributory pension scheme few days ago took to the street, to protest non-payment of their pension and gratuity.
The aggrieved retirees who stormed Iwo-East LCDA secretariat, Olomowewe, chanted different solidarity songs, and lamented that they took to protest because of the government’s refusal to pay them their pension since 2016 despite contributing into the contributory pension scheme while in service.
Some of the songs were “Oyetola pay us our money”, “Oyetola this suffering is too much”, “Oyetola stop lying”, among others.
Retired teachers protest non-payment of gratuity, pension in Osun
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Shina Abubakar Osogbo
Many retired teachers in Iwo, Osun State under the contributory pension scheme on Monday took to the street, protesting alleged non-payment of their pension and gratuity.
The retirees, who came out in number singing different songs took their protest to the Iwo-East LCDA secretariat, Olomowewe.
They said the state government had refused to pay pension since 2016 despite doing a contributory pension while in service.
Some of the songs they were singing say “Oyetola pay us our money”, ” Oyetola this suffering is too much”, “Oyetola stop lying”, among others.