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<span style="color: black;">Bulletins circulated by the Organised 
Labour Action Committee indicated their demands to include salaries of 
local government workers and teachers, salaries of staff of the Cross 
River University of Technology,  weigh-in allowances and other salary 
related payments.</span><span style="color: black;">Workers in
 Cross River State will on Friday embark on an indefinite strike 
following government’s inability to meet their demands.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> They were piqued that the government claimed that the bailout funds they received was to offset loans acquired.“Comrades this is our stand, our 
demand is that the government offsets all these payments, if not please 
sit at home from October 2, 2015.</span><span style="color: black;">In the bulletin made available by the 
Chairman of Trade Union Congress, Mr. Clarkson Otu, the workers said, 
“Labour says bailout funds are meant for payment of salary arrears, 
outstanding gratuities/pension and deduction from salaries.</span><br />
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 “MDAs are grounded, no activitiy, no funding. One man show, no exco. 
Boards, commissions and agencies not formed. Promotion of civil servants
 stalled. Salaries paid in parts, no release of deductions from 
salaries. Civil servants are made bad debtors to banks and loan vendors.
 All we hear is noise and sirens. Comrades, we are tired of waiting.”After a botched meeting with Governor 
Ben Ayade, Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Mr. John Ushie, said
 the governor never granted them audience to sort out the issues until 
they had to resort to strike.</span>