ALTON through its chairman, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo made this
known in reaction to the picketing of MTN office saying ALTON is very concerned
about this unfortunate development.
According to him, picketing of such nature as reported to
ALTON which led to injury to persons and damage to properties creates an
unfortunate situation where employees are coerced to join unions and
associations without respect for their individual rights of voluntary
association.
“Damage to any telecom facilities will lead to the
disruption of critical national security and economic services which will
expose innocent citizens to great danger,” he said, declaring that employees of
ALTON members are able to join or form associations and unions if they so
desire.
Also, ALTON said, the practice is that membership of any
associations and unions are voluntary.
They insisted that in line with fundamental human rights
regarding freedom of association as guaranteed by the constitution,
“individuals must not be compelled to join an association or union if they do
not choose to do so.”
ALTON further urged the government and its law enforcement
agencies to intervene expeditiously, otherwise “we will advise our members to
consider preventive shut down in order to avoid further damage to network
facilities.”
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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