{"id":67382,"date":"2025-06-05T10:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67382"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:54:35","slug":"abuja-risks-blackout-as-aedc-workers-threaten-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/05\/abuja-risks-blackout-as-aedc-workers-threaten-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Risks Blackout as AEDC Workers Threaten Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cross Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and surrounding states may soon face power outages as electricity workers under the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), threaten to embark on an indefinite strike over unresolved labour disputes.<\/p>\n<p>In separate letters to AEDC management, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), and the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), accused the company of failing to honour a collective agreement signed in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Key grievances include unpaid pensions, delayed promotions, poor staff welfare, and unpaid performance bonuses, issues the unions say persist despite the company generating \u20a694 billion in just 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>The unions have begun mobilizing workers across the FCT, Kogi, Nasarawa, and Niger States in preparation for the planned industrial action, which they warn could commence at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>If the strike proceeds, it could plunge the nation&#8217;s capital and key neighboring areas into darkness, disrupting businesses and essential services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cross Stone &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and surrounding states may soon face power outages as electricity workers under the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), threaten to embark on an indefinite strike over unresolved labour disputes. In separate letters to AEDC management, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), and the Senior Staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67384,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67382\/revisions\/67384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}