RATTAWU Suspends Strike

The Radio, Television and Theatre Arts Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU) yesterday suspended a strike action it embarked upon on Wednesday after it signed a memorandum of understanding with the federal government on how to implement its demands. The government, in the pact signed on its behalf by the Federal Ministry of Information, agreed to set up an expanded committee which starts work today to address the workers’ demands. The workers are protesting “poor funding and decaying infrastructure in public electronic media outfits, poor state of preparedness for transition to digital broadcasting in Nigeria by June, 2015 and low patronage of public media outfits by government agencies”, amongst others. RATTAWU president, Comrade Yemisi Bamgbose who spoke to our reporter said that the strike action will continue in states where the new weigh-in allowance has not been implemented.