Secondary school teachers in Delta State have joined their primary school counterparts in a sympathy strike to demand for payment of the N17,000 minimum wage approved by the state government.
Eddy Uloho, secretary, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in the state, who confirmed the development, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Asaba that the sympathy strike was to compel government to meet the demands of primary school teachers.
He said the union had met with government on three different occasions on the issue without any progress.
Mr Uloho said NUT and its members are tired of government's promises without any result, adding that, "any time the union asks its members to go on strike, government is always quick at inviting us to a dialogue.
"On each occasion, they make promises, and most times, the promises are not fulfilled.
"We are tired of promises they have no intention of keeping. We want them to come out with concrete resolution of the primary school teachers' issues," he added.
On June 7, the NUT directed teachers in public primary schools to proceed on an indefinite strike.
Ovuozuorie Macaulay, secretary to the State Government, said the union has no genuine reason to go on strike.
He said government had already agreed to pay teachers N17,000 minimum wage, but that the only challenge was that the NUT wanted the money paid before its members could return to work and that such demand was unknown to labour laws anywhere in the world.
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