NIPOST workers set to embark on indefinite strike

The nation may witness a disruption in postal services as from next week if the workers of the Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST) make good their threat to embark on industrial action to protest non-payment of salaries of over 3,000 workers of the organisation.
Dropping this hint in Lagos at the weekend, the President of the Senior Staff Association of Communication Transport and Corporations (SSACTAC), NIPOST branch, Mr Daniel Apeh, stated that the association had intimated the management of the organisation and other relevant authorities of its decision to go on strike as from this week to vent its frustration about the new payment system, the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Staff (IPPIS) system, which had left about 3,000 of the organisation’s workers without salaries since it became operational in May.
According to him, the impending strike had become imperative, since it was obvious that the management and the consultants handling the system had not demonstrated enough commitment to solving the problem despite several pleas from the association and the untold hardship the new system had brought on the workers.
‘The morale at the moment within the organisation is very low, because whatever affects one affects all.”