•Nigerian workers’ union The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Ogranised Labour to immediately mobilise and declare a nationwide strike over the minimum wage and the recent hike in electricity tariff. According to CDWR, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, as the next ...
•Tinubu and Organised Labour leaders The Organised Labour yesterday kicked against the Federal Executive Council’s decision to step down the memorandum on the report of the Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage. The Head of Public Relations of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Benson Upah, who criticised the failure of FEC to consider t...
•Organised Labour leaders The Organised Labour movement has expressed the expectation of Nigerian workers that the new minimum wage would be announced, passed into law, and its implementation begin before the end of July 2024. President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Comrade Festus Osifo, made this known when he received the Spe...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Rivers State have suspended their planned protest against the ongoing police blockade at local government area secretariats. This decision comes in light of reports indicating a potential for violence incited by certain individuals posing as labour members. During a joint ...
The presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, while presenting a joint address at the May Day celebration in Abuja, on Wednesday, urged the federal government to also enthrone service reflective tariff and stoppage of segregation of customers. In the 18-item demands presented by the labour...
Members of the organised labour, today, protested and shut down the headquarters of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) over alleged cut of workers’ salaries in the agency by the management of the fund. The aggrieved protesters, led by the President of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo and executive members of the Association of...
Organised labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has demanded N615,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. An impeccable source, who is an executive of organised labour, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told our correspondent that […]
The federal government, yesterday, insisted on the 240 per cent hike in tariff payable by power consumers in the band ‘A’ category despite calls for its reversal. It also revealed that the subsidised power pricing regime would be for the short term, with a transition plan to achieve a full cost-reflective tariff within a period […]
•Labour strike The South-East chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have proposed N540,000 and N447,000 respectively as new minimum wage for Nigerian workers. The organised labour of NLC and TUC made the proposal during the South-East Zonal Hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Mi...
•Tinubu and Organised Labour leaders Workers and the federal government sharply disagreed, yesterday, over how the implementation of the Steve Oronsaye report will affect jobs in the country. While the federal government allayed fears of job losses in the implementation of the report, which seeks to rationalise government agencies and parastat...
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