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 Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) was absent as the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has presented the federal government (FG) with a list of demands to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal on citizens. The demands by the TUC included an increase in the minimum wage, tax holiday for certain categories of people as well […]
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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 […]
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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