The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to embark on a strike should the fuel scarcity currently being experienced exceeds December. Isa Aremu, a chieftain of the Labour organisaton said this in a statement issued in Kaduna. Aremu said the situation might compel Nigerians to return to street protests as they had done in the […]
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Speaking at an interactive forum in Lagos, the president of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, on Wednesday, said a 29-member committee on a new National Minimum Wage will begin sitting before the end of July. “Before the end of this month, the process of discussions on a new minimum wage will commence.” […]
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, on Monday blamed the disruption and protest by workers at the May Day celebration in Abuja on factions in the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Ngige told newsmen on the sideline of the celebration that what happened was as result of infiltration by non-workers into the rally […]
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Some workers coordinated by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) took to the streets on Thursday in Lagos and Abuja to protest what they described as the worsening human condition. They called on the Federal Government to formulate policies that would reduce hardships and improve the lives of workers. The Acting Nigerian President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, […]
Continue ReadingGovernor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has embarked on an indefinite strike. The Governor stated that his strike was in solidarity with workers of the state civil service, who have been on strike for about 12 days, stating that the solidarity strike became expedient to show concerns with the workers, who have not received salaries […]
Continue ReadingEngineer Babachir David Lawal, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, has stated that if the NLC disobeys court orders by going on strike in protest of the increase in petrol price to N145 a litre, government offices should invoke the “no-work-no-pay” rule. The government warned civil servants against taking part in the strike, saying […]
Continue ReadingBabatunde Adejumo, president of the National Industrial Court has ordered the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend its planned strike.Ruling on an exparte application filed by Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Adejumo ordered the Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress to stand-down until the hearing and determination of the exparte motion. He […]
Continue ReadingA Lagos lawmaker, Mr Segun Olulade, on Sunday urged the organised labour to dialogue with the Federal Government rather than engage in industrial action over the increase in the pump price of petrol. Olulade, the Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Health, gave the advice in a statement signed by him in Lagos. […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian Labour Congress on Wednesday reacted to the recent hike in the price of petrol, saying it would resist the federal government’s scrapping of fuel subsidy and increase of petrol price to about N145 per litre.“The unilateral increase in prices of petroleum products today by government represents the height of insensitivity and impunity and […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and civil society allies, Thursday, declared a nationwide protest scheduled for Monday, February 8, against the hike in electricity tariff by government, in spite of a subsisting court order and non-improvement in power supply. Labour and its allies said, during the protest, all offices of the Distribution […]
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