The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday in Abuja condemned the pending bill to exempt military and law enforcement agencies from…
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The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that on July 14, a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered the NERC to reverse the tariff increase it imposed on Nigerians, saying the commission flouted due procedure in effecting the increase
Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, the NLC General Secretary, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday
He said the meeting was aimed at briefing the State Executive Council and Administrative Council members on the recent development in respect of the payment of workers in the state
Nnubia said October 7 had been set aside since 2008 by the International Trade Union Confederation to address issues pertaining to job safety, security and welfare of workers’ across the world
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.
Wabba said: “I think we should not shy away from relying on Nigerian experts instead of relying on information and dictates of IMF and World Bank, who have their own vested interests
The state NLC Chairman, Titus Abana, gave the challenge at news conference by organised labour in Maiduguri on Friday
The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday.
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’
Idris said this when the Presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress led a delegation to his office
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.
Minjibir said though the proposal was a welcome idea, it should be handled in such a way that it would not affect the monthly income of the ordinary civil servants
He said: “We may declare a state of emergency in the area of non-payment of salaries and we are going to have a meeting with all our state councils to respond effectively to some of these challenges
Following the threat by the workers to embark on strike, the government had approached the court seeking an injunction, which was granted.
The court injunction had ruled that the strike action planned by civil and public servants in the State had become null and void and indeed of no effect
“I happened to be among the people whose names were omitted in the pay-roll of the state for the past three months as a result of the last verification exercise conducted by the state government,” he said
“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
Chris Onyedika, the Acting General Secretary of a faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress and a member of the 15-man committee, also confirmed that it had started deliberations on the agreement reached between the Federal Government and factions of the NLC in May, this year
In one of the schools visited by NAN, only 15 out of more than 50 members of staff had reported for duty at about 10am and idling away.
Also, most primary and secondary school students had to return home