The TUC said in a statement on Monday that the successful conclusion of the conference by the NLC was “a testimony that no matter the differences, we can come to agreement”
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The poll was shifted to Friday when the initial election in February was tainted by protest over the handling of the ballot boxes
Nted, who is also the Vice-President of the NLC, said that he did not want his name or his union to be associated “with illegalities going on in the name of election”
The election, which is expected to produce new executives for the NLC, had delegates drawn from the 43 affiliate unions that make up the umbrella body
Investigations by NAN revealed that the state government is owing its workers a minimum of two months salaries
The election is slated for Thursday
Dr. Ifeanyi Ike, the Supervising Commissioner for Information, said the strike was politically motivated
Ajaero of the Nigeria Union of Electricity Employees, while briefing newsmen in Abuja, said the election was botched due to some irregularities discovered on the ballot papers
Peter Ozo-Eson, the General Secretary of the NLC, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the country would overcome its challenges
The union described the act as shameful, distasteful and unconstitutional
In a communiqué jointly signed by the President of the union, Bobboi Kaigama, and the National Secretary, Musa Lawal, the TUC said this was necessary before a follow-up action
Aremu spoke as the Guest Speaker at the Third Estate Annual Dinner in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital
Metuh said that the utterances of APC’s leadership with regards to the deployment of security personnel to the state to ensure peace in its governorship election was unfair
Rising from its meeting in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, the veteran labour leaders in a release signed by its Chairman, Comrade Idowu Faleye, and Secretary, Comrade Dare Ofere, advised the National President of NLC, Comrade Umar Abduwaheed, members of the Central Working Committee and the Ekiti NLC leaders to keep to the policy of labour and avoid dragging the state workers into partisan politics because of selfish financial gains
Omar made the appeal while speaking at the 2014 National Conference of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Abuja on Wednesday
NAN recalls that the workers embarked on strike in December 2013 to demand the release of four years of outstanding promotion arrears to workers
And the outcome of the Conference must represent the best wishes of the average Nigerian.
While the Congress commends the calibre of most of the people that have so far been chosen to be members of the Conference Advisory Committee, we also feel that it is important the organised labour, TUC and Nigeria Labour Congress, be involved
The Federal Government had gone into a closed-door meeting with representatives of the Joint Health Staff Union to resolve issues that led to the strike
Members of the union had embarked on an indefinite industrial action on August 22
He said that declaring a state of emergency means government has failed in the area of governance in the country