THE Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) has threatened to shut down the operations of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with picketing of its offices nationwide from Monday, July 26, 2021 over alleged anti-union postures by the FIRS management.
The NCSU, in a notice of industrial dispute, alleged that the FIRS had closed the union’s unit secretariat and the “illegal” deduction of its members’ check-off dues which are accruable to the union, among other contentious issues with the management.
The notice signed by Comrade Ibzimakor Nnubia, the union’s Deputy General Secretary on behalf of NCSU’s General Secretary, Comrade Yahya Ndako, directed the leadership of the union across the 36 states and the FCT to mobilise their members for the protest.
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“Please be informed that the Federal Inland Revenue Services has pitched itself against the Nigeria Civil Service Union over the union’s demand that issues impeding productivity and efficient service delivery be addressed, by clamping down on the union, sealing the union’s unit secretariat and unilaterally stopping check-off dues accruable to the union from our members.
“Flowing from these unwholesome tactics, the Nigeria Civil Service Union has resolved to picket the Federal Inland Revenue Service offices nationwide from 26 July 2021 until the Secretariat is unsealed; check-off dues deductions accruable fully restored and the contentious issues between the management and the union is resolved,” the notice reads in part.
