Nigerian Tribune: Teachers in Rivers threaten strike action
Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt – 17.02.2008
Teachers in Rivers State have threatened to down tools if their demands for payment of outstanding bonuses and allowances are not paid within 14 days. The teachers had on Wednesday stormed the Government House, Port Harcourt in protest over the non-release of some bonuses promised them by the government, including Christmas Bonus.
But the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Rivers State branch, in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting in Port Harcourt at the weekend and signed by Chief Chris Oruge and Apostle Samuel Mandah, state chairman and secretary respectively said the demands of the workers include payment of 15 percent consolidated wages for primary school teachers in the state.
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