Nigeria Labour Congress Leaders Suspend Indefinite Strike. After a meeting with the national security adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) have suspended the two-day old nationwide strike.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The labour leaders took their discussion with the NSA to both congresses extra-ordinary joint National Executive Council (NEC) meeting yesterday evening where the decision to suspend the strike was reached.
NLC general-secretary, Comrade Emmanuel Ugboaja and the TUC deputy president, Tommy Etim, confirmed the development to journalists in Abuja.
They said the federal government through the NSA had shown commitment at the earlier meeting that those arrested over the assault on NLC president, Joe Ajaero would be prosecuted.
Among federal government delegation at the meeting were; Nuhu Ribadu, the minister of labour and employment, Simon Lalong, the minister of state, labour and employment, Nkeiruka Onyeajeocha and the ministry’s acting permanent secretary Emmanuel Igbinosa with the director, trade union services.
On the labour side were the national president of TUC, Comrade Festus Osifo, the NLC secretary-general, Emmanuel Ugboaja, as well as TUC secretary-general Nuhu Toro and other labour leaders.
The strike which entered the second day yesterday was in protest against failure of the federal government to implement six-point core demands of organised labour after Ajaero was assaulted in Imo State.
Earlier yesterday, the national security adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribdau, had said the suspects in Ajaero’s brutalisation had been arrested and pleaded with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to call off the nationwide indefinite strike, but the workers’ unions have not yielded to the plea.
The industrial action embarked on by the organised labour crippled academic activities in some federal universities, LEADERSHIP gathered.
The strike came despite an injunction by the National Industrial Court (NIC), in Abuja, restraining NLC and TUC alongside their affiliates from embarking on any industrial action.
Nigeria Labour Congress Leaders Suspend Indefinite Strike
