Business at the famous Imo Concord Hotel was disrupted for the greater part of the early hours of yesterday 4th December 2013 by the disengaged staffers of the establishment numbering over 200 demanding the outright payment of their withheld three months salaries and service charges.
The disengaged workers accused the Hotel Management of insincerity and insensitivity for abandoning the disengaged workers and depriving them of their three months salaries and service charges which thy worked and entitled. For in a bid to avert harmful and serious attack from the infuriated mob, the Hotel management called for the intervention of the New Owerri Police Station and the State Security Serving (SSS) who responded immediately, and brought calm to the hotel and asked the aggrieved workers to open the gate of the Hotel.
However, the gate was opened after an agreement was reached by the Hotel management, the Police, SSS, workers union, that the disengaged workers be paid their outstanding and allowance on or before 20th December 2013. The Hotel management was represented by Mr Alex Ekeopara while the New Owerri Police station DPO witnessed the agreement.
The aggrieved disengaged workers handed a note of ultimatum to the Hotel management to either pay them their disengagement entitlement as enshrined in the MOU reached and signed by the NLC, TUC, Govt and the New Management or they will come back to work in their different positions in the establishment.
