Daily Independent workers protest 18-month salary arrears

Members of the National Union of Printing, Publication and Paper Products Workers (NUPPPROW) yesterday barred the entrance to Independent Newspaper Limited, publishers of Daily Independent, Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent titles.
The workers were protesting non-payment of 18 months’ salary arrears.

The placard-carrying protesters chanted “solidarity forever,” for about two hours in front of the gate of head office of the newspaper located on Block 5, Plot 7 D, Wempco Road, Ogba, Lagos.

The protesters said they were tired of “suffering and laughing”. They urged the management to pay them their salaries and remit their pensions and tax. The protest started about noon and ended around 2pm. No management staff came out to address the protesters. The Managing Director, Mr Ted Iwere, was also not on the premises when the protest started.

Meanwhile, the editorial staff of the newspaper, though were in the newsroom working, were said to be in support of the protesters. Some of them said the protest had not yet turned to full blown strike.

They added that it was the reason they had not joined NUPPPROW for a total shut down of the company. The Chairman, NUPPPROW, Daily Independent chapter, Mr Emmanuel Nwachukwu, said: “I cannot explain why workers’ salary has not been paid.
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