There were discordant tunes yesterday in reaction to yesterday’s suspended strike to protest the removal of petrol subsidy.While organised Labour on Monday night put off its planned strike after a marathon meeting between its leaders and Federal Government representatives, Nigerian e-hailing drivers union, the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transport Workers of Nigeria (AUATWON), yesterday announced that its planned strike, scheduled to commence today, June 7, will proceed as planned. [ad] This was contained in a communiqué titled: AUATWON rejects low fares, directs workers to shutdown app services from Wednesday, which was made available by the union’s General Secretary, Ibrahim Ayoade.
There were discordant tunes yesterday in reaction to yesterday’s suspended strike to protest the removal of petrol subsidy.While organised Labour on Monday night put off its planned strike after a marathon meeting between its leaders and Federal Government representatives, Nigerian e-hailing drivers union, the Amalgamated Union of App-based Transport Workers of Nigeria , yesterday announced that its planned strike, scheduled to commence today, June 7, will proceed as planned.
The e-Hailing drivers’ union, which is also affiliated to the NLC, said its members remain resolute in their decision. Calling on e-hailing drivers to join the strike, the communiqué stated: “We are using this opportunity to call on fleet managers, driver-partners and app-based transport workers across Nigeria to support this strike fully and understand that our services must be withdrawn during this protest and a moratorium or waiver should be given to all drivers on rentals or hire purchase.”
“For us at CHRICED, the same political elite who are responsible for treasonous mishandling of the economy and national assets are selling us the antidote of subsidy withdrawal. CHRICED believes that the political elite, which mishandled and ruined the economy, is not in the greatest position to advise the people on how to go ahead.
“Yet, the government deemed it fit to abruptly remove fuel subsidy without palliatives in place, without getting the nation’s four refineries to work, without transportation arrangement for Nigerian workers, without fulfilling its promises of the conversion of car engines from petrol to gas, among many others.”
He spoke with reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing hearing of petitions challenging the February 25 presidential election at the Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja. Kokori said: “Nigeria has no money again. You pay subsidy and only a few individuals are enjoying all the billions of naira. They are the cartel and they have properties all over the world, private jets, everything and you are subsidising fuel for the whole of West Africa, up to Sudan and Central Africa.”
“They were supposed to give at least 14 days notice and with that the government will call you for negotiation.” NLC has said the ruling of the National Industrial Court to stop the union from embarking on a nationwide strike was a continuous weaponisation of the instrument of ex parte injunction in favour of the government against the interests of Nigerian workers.
It stated that considering the mood of the socio-polity in the last general elections and the need to pursue national stability resolved that the Federal Government needed to comply with the laws of the land, especially as it concerns obedience to the rulings of the courts and their brazen disregard to the 2023 Appropriation Act.
The global labour body, the International Labour Organisation , though does not have a universal definition of what constitutes a national minimum wage, said: “A minimum wage is the minimum amount of remuneration that an employer is required to pay wage earners for the work performed during a given period, which cannot be reduced by collective agreement or an individual contract.”
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