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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

Abayomi also said that National Union of Electricity Employees had earlier written Opara and distanced itself from him as SSAEAC leader since August 20, 2013

The Congress is more particularly disturbed that the disease broke out again at a time when the health sector is beset by the on-going doctors’ strike

Esele, a representative of the TUC, said it was not enough for Nigerians to “talk-the-talk” as they also need to “work-the-talk”

The union, in a statement on Wednesday, said it was particularly concerned that officers and men of the Rivers State Police Command carried out the shooting

Kaigama said the country’s leaders should desist from blaming the military for the rot in the country

The government had proposed November 1 as the date for the handover of the successor companies to their new investors

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

Members of the union had embarked on an indefinite industrial action on August 22

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress at a press briefing told newsmen that the development was capable of eroding the earning power of Nigeria’s vulnerable workers

Yet, with the changes that have occurred in the socio-economic and political structure in Nigeria and the transformation of the Nigerian trade unions, especially the labour centres, labour unions are steadily emerging as active and powerful non state actors with the capacity to truncate or propel any transformation effort

The TUC said while it was not against the move to review the 1999 constitution, it foresees the handing over of wages to state governments creating more industrial crisis in the country

Meanwhile, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has congratulated Kaigama on his emergence as the president of the TUC

The TUC, in a statement by its President General, Peter Esele, said the judges did not have the minimum 10 years experience required to occupy such position

I honestly think that labour leaders have lost grip of contemporary reality. The 2013 budget has been passed, and payment of fuel subsidy is obviously included in the Budget, where then did Labour get their news that the government is about to cancel the payment of fuel subsidy

We will however support this bill for the harmonization of taxes in Rivers State to the extent that it will not be used as a ploy to introduce any new form of taxes and/ or levies in the state