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November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 IFMNEWS

NLC Strike Misplaced – Oshiomhole

A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to focus on advancing workers’ rights rather than partisan politics.

Speaking to State House correspondents after a meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima, Oshiomhole acknowledged his enduring affinity for labour unions stemming from his background as a worker and union leader.

He, however, expressed concern that the NLC’s recent strike actions seemed politically motivated rather than driven by a concrete worker-focused agenda.

The former NLC president said the priority of the labour unions should have been centred on state governments not currently paying the national minimum wage of N30,000.

November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 IFMNEWS

I Am Not Owing Salaries In Imo — Uzodinma Insists

Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodinma is insisting that workers in the state’s civil service are not being owed salaries.

The governor who has been re-elected into office stated this when he played host to the Imo Council of Elders.

He also apologized for the treatment the NLC President; Joe Ajaero got when he visited the state but maintained that the state government will never be intimated by the blackmails of the union.

November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 IFMNEWS

NLC/TUC Strike Action Not In National Interest, It Is An Attempt To Blackmail Government, Presidency Says

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has responded to the statement by the presidency which labelled the ongoing strike an “ego-tripping move” intended to “blackmail the government.”

The Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, claimed that the strike was “over a personal matter involving the NLC President, Joe Ajaero.”

Responding in a statement, titled “Bayo Onanuga’s Mischief and the Tragedy of a Nation, the NLC spokesperson, Benson Upah, said the strike is not about ego, or a personal matter involving Ajaero, but rather about the government’s failure to address the plight of workers and Nigerians.

The NLC accused Onanuga of making “sadistic comments” and suggested that his remarks reflected the views of those in power.

The union stated that the government should remain grateful to the organized labour for its uncommon patience with an administration that it said was not prepared for the consequences of its fundamentalist market policies of massive currency devaluation and ‘subsidy’ removal.

November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023 IFMNEWS

Partial Compliance In States As Organized Labour Commences Strike

Day two of the indefinite strike embarked upon by the Organised Labour over the assault on the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero as well as unmet demands by the federal government.

Nineteen unions have so far directed their workers to comply with the directive of the two labour centres, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC. Though compliance on the first day of the industrial action around the country was poor.

Some of the unions fully on board are the Senior Staff Associations of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN and the Nigeria Union of Railway Workers.

Also, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) wrote to its zonal coordinators and chairpersons to comply with the directives of the national secretariat of the NLC.

Inspiration FM visited the University of Lagos, UNILAG and a lecturer who preferred anonymity, said though they received the memo from ASUU, compliance was poor.

However, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) has said that its members are not part of the ongoing nationwide strike as it was not consulted by the organizing bodies of NLC and TUC.

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