NUJ, RATTAWU, NAWOJ to mobilise support for sacked TVC/Radio Continental staff
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Radio, Television, Theatre and Art Workers Union of Nigeria (RATTAWU), have spoken against Friday’s sack of 145 staff of Television Continental (TVC) and Radio Continental. The unions, in interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos said that due process was not followed in the exercise, which the unions said they would take up with the management of the media organisations. Lagos NUJ Council Chairman, Mr Deji Elumoye told NAN that investigations had revealed that TVC had a lopsided remuneration system where a few expatriates and management staff earned more salaries than the entire workforce. Elumoye said that the sack was ill-timed, as according to him, the organisation was clocking 10 years and was supposed to be celebrating its anniversary. “We even have the case of an expatriate whose salary is more than half of the salaries of the entire workforce that has been sacked. “...