• CSOs claim NLC leadership working for opposition • Strike to further impoverish workers, says NECA • TUC insists on shutting down activities in Lagos today over RTEAN • MC Oluomo led-Lagos park committee warns TUC against protest The Organised Private Sector of Nigeria (OPSN) has called on the Federal Government and labour unions to […]
• CSOs claim NLC leadership working for opposition • Strike to further impoverish workers, says NECA • TUC insists on shutting down activities in Lagos today over RTEAN • MC Oluomo led-Lagos park committee warns TUC against protest The Organised Private Sector of Nigeria has called on the Federal Government and labour unions to…• Strike to further impoverish workers, says NECA• MC Oluomo led-Lagos park committee warns TUC against...
Worried that adequate consideration had not been given to the dire situation of the economy and the devastating impact that a nationwide strike would have on the country at this time, he said government and labour needed to understand that the economy is being de-marketed, and the livelihood of the average Nigerian is being diminished by the incessant bickering.
A top NLC official told The Guardian yesterday that a circular, inviting members of the National Executive Council to Tuesday’s meeting by noon, would decide on the day members would embark on the indefinite nationwide strike to give room for enough notice to the government. According to him, the officers have been released but the police are still occupying the headquarters of the union in Abuja, imposing on the union their own cloned leadership, which is not only undemocratic but against the status and convention of the International Labour Organisation and laws of Nigeria.
“One is beginning to wonder if the wellbeing of more than 200 million Nigerians is being factored into their negotiations as we have keenly watched the back and forth consultations between government on one hand and the NLC/TUC on the other,” he said. The NECA chief urged the government to do the needful and save organised businesses and the economy at large the needless strike by addressing core workers’ demands as regards welfare and cost of living.
In a statement co-signed by Dr. Thomas Terna Uzah, Executive Director/ National Convener, the CSOs alleged that NLC is being sponsored by the opposition to cause chaos. The group further claimed that the labour body has already been mobilised with $5 million to carry out its agenda. The CSOs, therefore, urged “all well-meaning Nigerians, particularly the youth, not to allow themselves to be used as cannon fodder for achieving some people’s narrow objective.”
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