Tag: ORGANISED LABOUR

Strike: Stop politicising labour movement Keyamo warns NLC, TUC

Aminu Imam

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has appealed to striking labour unions to desist from politicising the labour movement. Keyamo made this known in a statement through the official X handle of the Ministry yesterday. Reports yesterday confirmed that members of labour unions yesterday blocked both the entry and exit ways of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, resulting in heavy traffic gridlock. The development follows the unions decision to shut down flight operations to Imo State over an attack on the NLC president, Joe Ajaero. However, the…

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No warning before next strike, Labour tells FG

Aminu Imam

The Trade Union Congress, (TUC), on Saturday said the suspension of its October 1 nationwide strike was a temporary move. The TUC National Deputy President, Tommy Etim, who made these known in an interview in Abuja on Saturday, noted that it remained conditional upon the fulfillment of the promise by the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to fulfill the conditions enlisted in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Federal Government and the Organised Labour. Recall that Organised Labour and the Federal Government had signed a 15-point agreement in the…

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Nationwide Strike: NLC, TUC begin action October 3rd

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Organised labour says it will embark on an indefinite strike from October 3, over the prevailing hardship due to the removal of oil subsidy. Festus Osifo, President Trade Union Congress (TUC), said this in a communiqu, he jointly signed with Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Tuesday in Abuja. The communiqu was issued at the end of a joint National Executive Council meeting of the two unions. According to Osifo, the strike is to demonstrate our resolve for a truly independent Nigeria; to take our destinies…

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