Following a meeting with the Federal Government, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended the planned strike over the removal of the petrol subsidy. The labour unions announced the suspension after a meeting of their leaders and representatives of the federal government on Monday. They are to reconvene on June […]
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The meeting on subsidy removal between the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the federal government of Nigeria has ended without an agreement. The meeting called by the federal government, was intended to reach an agreement with organised labour after President Bola Tinubu’s announcement that petrol subsidy would cease to be in […]
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The United Labour Congress (ULC) has described the proposed nation-wide strike by organised labour as an arrangement designed to fail. The ULC in a statement issued by its President, Joe Ajaero, added that the labour centre will not be a part of the exercise that ‘makes a mockery of the genuine struggle by Nigerian workers’. […]
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The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, has vowed to go ahead with its planned strike action, over government’s refusal to increase minimum wage, hence it tells Nigerians to stock up supplies. The Union in a communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council in Abuja on Tuesday threatened to “shutdown the country”. […]
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The presidency, on Friday, stepped up efforts to convince labour unions in the country to call off their strike following the earlier meeting at which the government accepted their demand to reconvene the tripartite meeting on the proposed new national minimum wage. The meeting between the labour leadership and the representatives of the employers of […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Labour Congress, has suspended the ongoing nationwide strike and has resolved to resume negotiation with the government. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in a communiqué at the end of a two-hour meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC), said it was ready to return to the negotiating table to discuss the issues that […]
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