The leadership of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, will on Monday, April 12, 2021, meet the Minister of Labour and Productivity to discuss the way out of the present strike action, which enters its tenth day today.
Another meeting has also been slated for Wednesday with the representatives of the Governors Forum to find a lasting solution to the ongoing strike.
JUSUN had embarked on a nationwide strike to back their demand for full financial autonomy for the judiciary.
Ali Mustapha, the organizing Secretary of JUSUN, said in a statement on Sunday, April 11, 2021, that the association’s National Executive Council, NEC, met at its National Secretariat, Abuja to review its ongoing industrial action and to appraise the meeting is held with the members of the National Executive Committee of the NBA in Abuja.
The statement stated that after extensive deliberations, they resolved to honor the invitation of the Governors forum, “to interface with its leadership, to find a common ground to resolve the issue of Financial Autonomy of the Judiciary”.
Mustapha said the decision to call off the strike will depend on the positive outcomes of the meetings with Nigeria Governors Forum and that of the Minister of Labour and Productivity.
Source: The Nation
