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The organised labour at the weekend cautioned the National Economic Council (NEC) against approving a recommendation by the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) seeking a N385 pump price for petrol.
State affiliates of the organised labour, in separate interviews with THISDAY, said doing so will unleash hardships on the people and heat up the polity.
Their warning came ahead of a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), scheduled for Abuja tomorrow, to deliberate on the issue.
The 36 governors, under the auspices of the NGF, at a meeting last week, had endorsed the N385 per litre pump price recommended by a committee set up by NEC, and headed by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.
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Published 19 May 2021
The Nigeria Labour Congress has suspended its five-day warning strike in Kaduna State to pave way for negotiations as requested by the Federal Government.
The President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, announced the suspension of the strike on Wednesday in Kaduna.
He said, “As you are aware, we have been in Kaduna State for the past four days for our declared protest and industrial action against the sack of workers without following due process as provided by the Labour law.
“This action was successful and we tried to maintain procedures of industrial action.
“This afternoon an official letter was communicated to the NLC national headquarters signed by the Minister of Labour.
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Williams Akporeha, NUPENG national president, said the union members should be on the red alert as they could shut their services “at very short notice if situation arises”.
TheCable had reported how the NLC members were attacked by armed thugs while protesting in Kaduna on Monday.
The labour union are on a five-day warning strike over the sack of civil servants by the state government.
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Ayuba Suleiman, NLC chairman in the state, had said the unions were committed to the principle of dialogue and social bargaining for the benefit of the disengaged workers.
But the state government said the move was necessitated because of its high wage bill.