The state Chairman of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Suleiman, and Chairman of the defunct ULC, Comrade Ephraim Jonah, disclosed this to newsmen after a joint State Executive Council reconciliation meeting, held at the Textile Labour House in Kaduna.
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Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this during a reconciliation meeting between the NLC and the ULC on Thursday in Abuja.
Ngige said this on Thursday when the leadership of the United Labour Congress paid him a courtesy visit in his office
Organised labour has again cautioned the Federal Government on the nation’s rising debt profile, “resulting from government’s unsaturated appetite for borrowing and foreign loans”.
Organised Labour on Friday said it had started mobilisation of members ahead of the January 8 strike over the payment of N30,000 New Minimum Wage.
Joe Ajaero, President, United Labour Congress, says the organised labour expects the National Assembly to fast-track action on the minimum wage report once presented because of its urgency.
The report was presented to President Buhari on Tuesday evening by the Chairperson of the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage, Ama People
This is coming after hours of meeting on Monday between Organised Labour, represented by the Nigeria Labour Congress, United Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, and a Federal Government team headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha
The Organised Labour has insisted that the Tripartite Committee on the new National Minimum Wage has concluded its assignment for onward submission to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some commercial banks in Ibadan metropolis also shut down their activities in compliance with the directive by the labour groups.
The Organised Labour has called on workers from all sectors of the economy to comply with the seven days nationwide warning strike over refusal of the Federal Government to reconvene the negotiation on Minimum Wage.
Joe Ajaero, President of the United Labour Congress, made the called at the end of its Central Working Committee meeting in Lagos.
The ULC said this in reaction to a statement credited to the Ministry of Labour and Employment that those indicted in the NSITF fraud included leaders nominated by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association.
Speaking with labour correspondents in Lagos, the President of the ULC, Joe Ajaero, said that restructuring would bring about creation of security outlets by various to end the wanton killings in the country.
On May 30, Ngige announced that the new National Minimum Wage would not be paid to workers by the end of September, contrary to a previous announcement by the Federal Government.
Agbakoba spoke at a May Day Lecture organised by the United Labour Congress in Lagos, with the theme: “Trade Union Movement and the Quest for a Virile Economy: 2019 in Focus’’.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the union also ordered its members in both airlines to withdraw their services indefinitely until all the pending issues involving their welfare are resolved.
Ajaero issued the warning during a protest against airport concession organised by the leadership of the ULC and members of the Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
The defunct national carrier was liquidated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime in 2005 and the workers had been embarking on protests nationwide over their unpaid entitlements
Joe Ajaero, the ULC President, said this at a conciliatory meeting called at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, with other affiliates of the proposed association on Wednesday in Abuja