The Non-public Telecommunications and Communications Senior Workers Affiliation (PTCSSA) has warned hundreds of thousands of subscribers to count on an enormous communication shutdown within the sector after 800 staff launched into strike on Monday.
Union Secretary-Common, Okonu Abdullahi, advised The PUNCH that the strike would proceed till telecom firms handle the union’s calls for, which embrace the reinstatement of sacked staff, union recognition, improved working situations, and remittance of membership dues.
“The strike has turn into inevitable due to the prevalent precarious working situations our members are enduring within the sector, the refusal of the employers to acknowledge and respect the constitutional proper of those staff to freely affiliate with the union, and the unjust sack of three members of the union,” the union acknowledged in its seven-day strike discover.
The union added that it has given the telecom firms ample time to satisfy their calls for however reported that their grievances have been ignored.The union added, “The implications of the strike shall be huge as a result of now we have advised all our members not to answer any service outage from our employers. The actual fact stays that there are outages day by day, and if our engineers don’t reply to these outages, subscribers in these areas shall be affected.”
He added that members of the union embrace discipline upkeep engineers, transmission engineers, customer support engineers, fibre engineers, and different crucial workers working for telecom service firms.
The businesses affected embrace Huawei Applied sciences Nigeria Restricted, Tylium Nigeria Restricted, Particular Instruments & Strategies, CPNL (Chinese language Pacific Networks Restricted), CITCC (China Worldwide Telecommunications Development Company), and JUSPARTNER.
