AGAIN- NLC Threatens Strike without Notice over Kaduna Dispute, Fuel Price

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday served discover that it might embark on a nationwide strike with out discover if the Kaduna State Authorities remained adamant and recalcitrant or refused to halt the sacking of staff.

It additionally threatened to withdraw providers of staff in Nigeria with none additional discover ought to the federal authorities resolve to extend the worth of refined petroleum merchandise, particularly petrol.

In a communiqué issued yesterday following its digital Nationwide Government Council (NEC) held on Tuesday, NLC mentioned it thought of points arising from the economic disaster in Kaduna State and resolved to proceed to maintain its doorways open for dialogue and amicable decision of the economic disaster.

The communiqué, collectively signed by the NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, and Performing Normal-Secretary, Mr. Ishmail Bello, nonetheless, mentioned the NEC assembly resolved that “in case the Kaduna State Authorities remained adamant and recalcitrant or continues to pursue the trail of warfare, menace and punitive actions in opposition to staff and their pursuits, that it had given the Nationwide Administrative Council (NAC) the facility to re-activate the suspended industrial motion in Kaduna State and in addition name for the withdrawal of providers of all staff in Nigeria with none additional discover.”

On the proposal by the Nigeria Governors’ Discussion board to the Nationwide Financial Council (NEC) to extend the worth of gasoline, NLC mentioned it had resolved to reply with a direct declaration of a nationwide strike within the occasion of additional, improve in gasoline value by the federal government.

Governors had endorsed the report of the el-Rufai Committee arrange by the NEC, which really useful N280 per litre as the worth of petrol as in opposition to the present N162 and N165 per litre.

However NLC mentioned its NEC assembly had resolved “that any the choice to extend by even one cent the worth of refined petroleum merchandise, particularly petrol will appeal to a direct withdrawal of providers by Nigerian staff everywhere in the nation with none additional discover.
“The NEC reiterated that it nonetheless stands solidly by its determination taken at its assembly which came about on seventeenth February 2021 to reject additional will increase within the value of refined petroleum merchandise, significantly petrol.

“The NEC additionally re-echoed its determination that the one sustainable method out of the disaster of gasoline importation and related dislocations within the downstream petroleum sub-sector is for the federal government to rehabilitate all 4 public refineries in Nigeria and construct new ones.”
It added that the NEC resolved to jot down formally to the federal government conveying the plight of Nigerian staff, the considerations of congress and the resolutions of the NEC on the matter of contemporary proposals for a rise within the pump value of gasoline, particularly as knowledgeable by the stance of the Nigeria Governors’ Discussion board.

With regard to the evaluation of the 1999 Structure of Nigeria, NLC urged the National Assembly to retain labour administration, nationwide minimal wage, pension and industrial relations on the unique legislative checklist of the structure.
The assembly additionally resolved to mobilise staff in any respect the zonal public hearings to lend weight to the calls for and aspirations of staff within the ongoing evaluation of the 1999 Structure.