Labour leaders were observed arriving the venue for the meeting.
Among them are the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, General Secretary of the Congress, Emma Ugboaja, and General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Nuhu Toro.
On the government side, Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajiabiamila, and ministers of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong and Nkeiruka Onyejoecha, respectively, are leading the negotiation.
Recall that the NLC and TUC had threatened to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike on October 3rd, 2023, to protest the fuel subsidy removal policy of the Federal Government.
The meeting comes just few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced a N25,000 salary award package to low grade civil servants in the country, in his Independence Day Broadcast to the nation on Sunday.
Recall that the NLC and TUC had threatened to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike on October 3rd, 2023, to protest the fuel subsidy removal policy of the Federal Government.
The meeting comes just few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced a N25,000 salary award package to low grade civil servants in the country, in his Independence Day Broadcast to the nation on Sunday.
Envelopes will exchange hands, let NLC keep deceiving themselves
ReplyDeleteStrike to be called off today.
DeleteSalaries for low grade staff have been increased as a death blow to the politically biased unions. What envelopes again? Do you realize that the union members can change their leadership if they feel they are not being released well?
DeleteLabor leadership and opposition pictures deceiving them has been disgraced
We first talk am. Na God eyes we dey look.
ReplyDeleteThe same BVs who lost their religious war led by a sectional character are so desperate for a strike that will only worsen the lives of all of them who are in the formal and informal sector.
ReplyDeleteLet them ask themselves who actually benefits from a strike and who loses the most. There are PhD holders who went home for months under Buhari. They government made it clear that Nigeria was dead broke and died the books. It was even clear that they could not appropriate money for subsidy as no one was picking the calls to borrow more. ASUU deceived itself and allowed itself to be deceived, leaving for an unpaid vacation. After starving themselves over nothing, they resumed by force and have not had the courage to even voice out in the effects of subsidy: e choke reach like that.
When labor comes back from disobeying a court order and get no pay for days not worked, sebi you, Atiku and Obi are the ones that will finance their families?
Where would a government where the workers have downed tools and left find money to pay same workers? All strikes end the same way and can only be done so many times that people say no. It's is part of what is affecting labor today. Market women, farmers, SMEs, are also labor and would be hit terribly because government workers , most who are unproductive, shut down the economy. This has continued to affect labors popularity over the years. Yet people who are looking for people to help them are still clamoring for those people's businesses and livelihoods to suffer over absolutely nothing any national government can change: the price of petroleum products. That is witchcraft and it will not help you.