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GMP workers take to streets over unpaid salaries arrears
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Workers of General Metal Product (GMP) protesting unpaid salary arrears in Lagos on Tuesday
Traffic around First Rainbow bus stop on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway was temporarily disrupted on Tuesday by workers of General Metal Product (GMP) who were protesting the non payment of their 14 months salary arrears amounting to N150 million.
The distraught workers called for the intervention of President Umaru Yar'Adua, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State as well as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), saying the ugly development has snatched from them their dignity as human beings as they can no longer fulfill their responsibilities as parents.
According to the chairman of the GMP branch of the Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria (SEWUN), Dennis Ebari, the protest became necessary to draw the attention of the government, the general public and the company board of directors to the plight of the workers many of whom he said, have been thrown out of their apartments for inability to pay their rents over a period of time.
Ebari said all efforts to get the management of the company to pay the outstanding salary arrears and allowances have proven abortive as promises made to this effect have not materialized.
Reacting to the workers' decision to stage the protest, Michael Omolewe, head of administration and human resources of GMP, attributed the company's inability to pay the workers to financial strait occasioned by economy downturn.
He said that the company itself was being owed, a development that is affecting its operations and rubbing off negatively on both management and staff. Omolewe added however, that negotiations were ongoing to offset the outstanding salary arrears and allowances.
According to the chairman of the GMP branch of the Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria (SEWUN), Dennis Ebari, the protest became necessary to draw the attention of the government, the general public and the company board of directors to the plight of the workers many of whom he said, have been thrown out of their apartments for inability to pay their rents over a period of time.
Ebari said all efforts to get the management of the company to pay the outstanding salary arrears and allowances have proven abortive as promises made to this effect have not materialized.
Reacting to the workers' decision to stage the protest, Michael Omolewe, head of administration and human resources of GMP, attributed the company's inability to pay the workers to financial strait occasioned by economy downturn.
He said that the company itself was being owed, a development that is affecting its operations and rubbing off negatively on both management and staff. Omolewe added however, that negotiations were ongoing to offset the outstanding salary arrears and allowances.
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