The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Niger has made three points demand to enable it suspend the ongoing seven-day strike in the state. Mr Yakubu Garba, the state Chairman, NLC made this known in an interview in Minna. “We held a meeting with the government team on Saturday night and agreed that the October salaries of Local Government workers be paid. “Organised labour also demanded that the state government remit corporative deductions to workers and 80 civil servants dismissed from service be re-instated,” he said.…
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FG extends suspension of new electricity tariff by 1 week
The Federal Government has extended the suspension of the new electricity tariff by one week. Professor James Momoh, Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said this when the ad hoc Technical Committee on Electricity Tariff submitted its interim report at a reconvene bilateral meeting between Federal Government and Organised Labour on Monday in Abuja. The new tariff was earlier suspended for two weeks and ended at midnight on October 11, when the organised labour suspended the planned industrial action over agitation on the hike in electricity tariff on Sept. 28.,…
Read MoreLabour did not betray workers over strike – FG
The Federal Government says contrary to the opinion of some Nigerians, organised labour neither compromised nor betrayed workers in the negotiations that led to the suspension of its planned strike. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this on Friday when he featured on TV Continental (TVC) call-in programme, ” This Morning.” The programme, which centred on the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, was monitored in Abuja. Recalls that the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress and their affiliates recently suspended their planned strike to protest fuel…
Read MoreLabour, FG lock horns over electricity tariff, fuel price hike
… Subsidy must go, FG insists Organised Labour under the auspices of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has again disagreed with the Federal Government over the recent increase in the prices of petroleum products and electricity tariff, stressing that both policies are a burden on Nigerian workers. President of the NLC, Ayubba Wabba, made this known to the Government during dialogue with government representatives on the state of the economy, even as he condemned the fixing of prices of electricity and petrol without consultations…
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