ORGANISED LABOUR CALL OFF INDUSTRIAL STRIKE

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their industrial action. The TUC president Festus Osifo confirmed this in Abuja on Tuesday after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions. “A joint NEC meeting of TUC/NLC has approved to relax the industrial action for one week […]

Breaking: FG, Labour to meet tomorrow over strike, minimum wage

The Federal Government has through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, NSIWC, summoned a meeting of the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage for tomorrow. Last meeting of the committee ended abruptly on May 31, after Organised Labour negotiating team walked out following government and organised private sector, OPS, refusal to go […]

Strike: WAEC appeals to NLC, TUC to consider candidates

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has appealed to organised labour to consider students sitting for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination as it plans an indefinite strike. The Head of National Office of WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, appealed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. He […]

ASUU JOINS NLC NATIONWIDE STRIKE

The NLC has declared an indefinite strike action beginning from Monday, 3rd June, 2024, as a result of the failure of Government to conclude the renegotiation of minimum wage for Nigerian workers and reversal of hike in electricity tariff. Our branches are hereby enjoined to join in the strike action as an affiliate member of […]

Strike: You Risk Six Months Jail Term, FG threatens Workers

The Federal Government has warned workers planning to embark the indefinite strike declared by labour unions that they risk six months jail term.Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), gave the warning in a statement on Sunday. Fagbemi said Section 18 of the Trade Disputes Act requires a worker employed […]

FG MEETING WITH NLC,TUC ENDS IN DEADLOCK, INSISTS ON INDEFINITE STRIKE

The Organised Labour comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have insisted on proceeding with the indefinite strike action scheduled to commence on Monday, 3rd June, 2024. This is as the leadership of the National Assembly led by Senate President Godswill Akpabio called for a return to the negotiation table. […]

Minimum Wage: ASUU vows to participate in nationwide strike

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will participate in the nationwide strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. However, another rival academic staff union in the university system, the Congress of University Academics, CONUA, is yet to take any position on the matter. Speaking in chats with Vanguard newspaper on Sunday […]

Nigerian govt, NASS leadership in emergency meeting with NLC, TUC over proposed strike

Representatives of the federal government and the leadership of the National Assembly are currently in a meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Abuja We gathered that the meeting, which began at about 5.30 p.m. at the National Assembly complex, was at the instance of the […]

No going back on nationwide strike — Lagos NLC, TUC

Rising from an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Lagos chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have ordered a total shutdown of schools, government offices, airspace, electricity and water as of midnight on Sunday. The unions, in a joint press briefing, addressed by their chairmen, Comrade Funmi Session and Comrade […]

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