Hardship: Federal, state, LG workers begin 3-day warning strike nationwide

•Public sector unions order total compliance •Decry government insensitivity to hardship, suffering of workers, Nigerians
By Victor Ahiuma-Young
Public sector unions under the aegis of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, have directed all federal, state and local government employees, including staff of ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, nationwide, to begin a three-day warning strike from midnight today over the failure of the government to address their demands. The council directed union officials in the federal, state and local government services to ensure total compliance with the industrial action, citing what it described as worsening econom...