The Reconciliation Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has failed to resolve the leadership crisis rocking the congress,according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The committee is headed by former NLC president Hassan Summonu.
The Congress broke into two at the end of its delegates’ conference in Abuja last year.
One of the factional Presidents, Joe Ajaero, in a letter addressed to Summonu, expressed disappointment over what he called the uncommitted attitude of some of the congress members to the reconciliation.
Ajaero wrote: “We had believed that all of us were genuinely committed to speedily working through the process to reach acceptable compromise.
“The reconciliation is expected to assist the aggrieved parties build a new and vibrant movement and not pseudo outcomes that might further undermine Nigerian workers and weaken the NLC.”
Ajaero said it would be unfair to keep with the traditions of the Congress as a protector of the masses to continue with the reconciliation effort if it proceeds beyond the end of this month,pointing out that the process as currently configured has begun to work against the interest of Nigerian workers and the Congress.
He said: “We re-emphasis that we may no longer be found available at the table any longer if these meetings continue beyond the end of January 2016.”
He said said it was regrettable that the prolonged reconciliation and lack of cohesion by the congress has affected workers in getting their right during privatisation of the electricity sector.