The Joint Action Front (JAF) has tackled the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) over the suspension of the nationwide strike on the removal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu government. This was contained in a press statement jointly signed by Dr Dipo Fashina, JAF Chairperson, and Comrade Abiodun Aremu, JAF Secretary, while expressing their disappointment on how the NLC leadership failed to understand the current economic hardship most Nigerians are facing due to the removal of fuel subsidy.
Nigerian Workers, NLC’s Surrender To Tinubu Government On Fuel Subsidy Is Disappointing – Joint Action FrontThe Joint Action Front has tackled the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress over the suspension of the nationwide strike on the removal of fuel subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu government.
The statement reads: “The Joint Action Front receives with disappointment the suspension of the strike that was scheduled to commence on Wednesday, July 7 by the Nigeria Labour Congress against the criminal hike in petrol price under the guise of fuel subsidy removal.
“This deplorable state of hardship cannot continue for long before a social explosion, would inevitably occurs! Unfortunately, the trade unions leadership’s capitulatory approach of negotiating for palliatives, which even, if granted, will not cushion the effect of the subsidy removal for the majority of the population! The tradition of the Labour movement is to stand firm in a principled struggle, by insisting not only on the reversal of the hike in the petrol price but to advance the demand...
The statement continued: “In view of this, JAF hereby calls on Nigerian workers, youth and the poor not to be demoralized by the highly condemnable surrender to the Government’s intimidation of black market court injunction, without any iota of commitment to fight in defence of the working people and poor! Even, the new Government and its hurriedly packaged negotiators of ex-trade union bureaucrats in admixture with NNPC and private individuals on the Government’s team were alarmed to have an...
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