Until his elevation, Ajaero was the Deputy President of the NLC and General Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Electricity Employees. He was unanimously elected unopposed as the NLC President at the just-concluded 13th National Delegates’ Conference of the Labour movement.
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The NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, made the call in a statement titled: “Nigerian workers refused to take the bait.”
The President of the NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, declared the protest open on Monday.
The ASUU Chairperson, Dr Peter Adamu gave the directive in a circular to the members of the union, issued in Kaduna on Monday.
They were declared wanted for economic sabotage and attacks on public infrastructure under Miscellaneous Offences Act.
They were declared wanted for economic sabotage and attacks on public infrastructure under Miscellaneous Offences Act.
The governor said this barely 24 hours after workers in the state commenced a warning strike over alleged mass sackings in the state.
Members of the labour movement led by the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba took to the street around 9:40am on Monday to protest what they called anti-labour policies of the Kaduna State government.
The NLC in a communiqué issued at its recent virtual National Executive Meeting by the president, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, stated that the demand was consequent on the incontrovertible evidence that the power sector privatisation has failed to achieve any of its objectives, which include improving the quality and quantity of electricity supply to Nigerians, shedding of power sector funding from the government and increasing revenue from power sector investment to the coffers of government.
The Trade Union Congress and other bodies in their hundreds besieged the National Assembly to express their displeasure over a bill to remove the minimum wage from the exclusive list to the concurrent list.
The purpose is a last ditch effort to see the possibility of averting the strike action slated for Monday
Addressing a news conference in Abuja, NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said that the recent sack of teachers was a pointer to the planned mass sack of workers in the state.
“Before the end of this month, the process of discussions on a new minimum wage will commence,” Wabba said at an interactive forum in Lagos.
Wabba said: “Up till now, government is still dragging its feet on talks about the minimum wage; the tripartite structure has not been put in place.”
He said the speculation that talk on minimum wage had collapsed was misleading, adding that the talk had not even started.
He said: “In fact, the review of the sale of Ajaokuta Steel Company is one of the best things that happened to this country
Wabba said: “We have given instructions to all of our state councils that where there is liability of salary up to three months, they should also apply the rule of ‘no pay, no work’
He said the dead victim was a staff of the state Ministry of Education, while the three others who sustained gunshot wounds included a staff of Doma Local Government Council, the Judicial Service Commission and a journalist with the defunct Nigerian Newsday, a state-owned media outfit
“However, from the discussion we had with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, we are supposed to meet within this week.
“It is our hope that the meeting will still be convened and we will make ourselves available for it.
“All monies to be spent should be transparently budget for, including the so-called security vote, so that it can be tracked, to prevent corruption.”
Also, Wabba called for the removal of the immunity clause from the constitution to enable the president, his vice, governors and their deputies to be prosecuted for a criminal offence
“In the light of the sensitive nature of the subject matter, this story is not only alarmist, it constitutes an unnecessary overheating of the polity.
“To the best of our knowledge, government accepted to set up two committees as a result of the major protest by labour, following the increase in the pump price of petroleum products