The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) council, has expressed worries over the slow pace of work by the committee on review of the new minimum wage set up by the Federal Government.
This was contained in a communiqué issued after the meeting of the State Governing Council (SGC). It was signed by the President, Comrade Benjamin Anthony, in Abuja.
AUPCTRE urged the committee to hasten up its work.
The union condemned “the factionalisation” of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), pledging its unalloyed loyalty to Comrade Ayuba Wabba. It urged other unions and Nigerians to support the NLC.
It called on the Federal Government to save the ailing economy and to rescind its suspension of the tenure policy of the Federal Civil Service, because of its stagnation tendency.
“The SGC-in-session commends the Federal Government for setting up the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), but observed that much is still desired to sanitise the system so as not to use it as a conduit pipe to syphon government money and urges government to take necessary steps in this direction,’’ it said.
The union condemned the move by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, to privatise the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and change its name to Federal Housing Company.
“The implication is that Nigerians would not have access to affordable houses. The union, therefore, calls on the Federal Government to appoint a substantive management team and Board to run FHA for effective operational activities,” it said.
