Former vice-president of the Nigerian Labour Congress, (NLC), and now Director-General, Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin, Issa Aremu, has said the record of President-elect Bola Tinubu as two-term governor of Lagos State, and campaign programme of All Progressives Congress, (APC) positioned him “as the possible best labour-friendly President” in waiting.
Aremu stated this yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, while declaring open a two-day induction of industrial relations training programme for the newly elected executive members of the newly formed Congress of Nigerian University Academics, (CONUA)
He said, “The inauguration of the new administration of President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, offered a new opportunity for unions, governments and employers to rethink and deepen Nigeria/ILO Decent work agenda”.
Aremu said Tinubu value labour as a critical success partner in his commendable renewed hope agenda through mass youth employment programmes and end to avoidable strikes in universities through social dialogue.
While backing up his assertion with facts, Aremu explained that Tinubu was the first presidential candidate to engage both NLC and TUC members on critical market issues with promises of social dialogue as means for resolving inevitable disputes in the world of work.
Aremu described Tinubu and his Vice President-elect as “tested and trusted democratic State and non-State icons”, who would consolidate on some of the pro-labour legacies of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Director-General observed that the new administration would engage the organised labour on all outstanding issues of the living wage, gender equity, pension, labour motivation, productivity, social protection and dispute resolutions.
The ex-Labour chieftain, therefore, advised the Organised Labour to forge a sustainable partnership on “decent work agenda for national development” with the administration of Tinubu.
The workshop, which was themed: “Building Harmonious Labour Management Relationship as a Tool for University Education Stability and National Development”, was jointly organised by the institute and the office of the Registrar of Trade Unions for the newly elected officials of the CONUA drawn from various universities in the country.
