The Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union and the Nigeria Union of Journalists(NUJ) formally declared a three-day warning strike beginning from next Monday.
The Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili had called RATTAWU to a meeting in Abuja to avert the three-day warning strike it threatened to embark on from November 22 to press its demand for a new salary structure for media workers.
Yemisi Bamgbose, the President of RATTAWU, told journalists that the outcome of the meeting was that the warning strike would go on.
He said that after consultation with members all over the country, the union had decided to embark on a warning strike.
Mr. Bamgbose said the government had taken the media for granted for too long, and that this was responsible for the non-implementation of the recommendations of the committee it set up on the union's demands.
Also speaking on the issue, the General Secretary of RATTAWU, Mr. Henry Odugala and his NUJ counterpart, Shuaibu Leman called for total compliance by Media and cultural workers.
The statement also enjoined Cultural Workers in the Federal and State Art Councils to boycott participation at the 2010 Abuja Carnival.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Akunyili has said that she will hold further discussions with the union on the need to reconsider its decision to embark on the strike.
Newsmen recalls that RATTAWU's demand for a new salary structure early this year led the Federal Government to set up a committee headed by Abubakar Jijiwa, the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON).
The committee reviewed media workers' salaries, but since it submitted its report, the government is yet to comment on it.
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