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  • NLC urges Uduaghan to resolve dispute with teachers

    NLC urges Uduaghan to resolve dispute with teachers

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Delta State chapter, has intervened in the dispute between the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Delta State Government.

    The NUT has been on strike for four days over the non-implementation of the 27.5 per cent Teachers’ Peculiar Allowance (TPA).

    NLC urged Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to intervene in the dispute between the NUT and the state Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education.

    In a letter to the governor by its Chairman, Comrade Williams Akporeha, NLC said: “The issues at stake have lingered on for so long and deserve your immediate intervention to ensure continued peaceful industrial climate in the state.”

    Public schools were scheduled to resume for a new academic session last Monday, but they could not owing to the NUT strike.

    Commissioner for Education Prof. Patrick Muoboghare said the government has not implemented the TPA because the ministry has not completed the verification of teachers.

  • NLC: Sanusi isn’t convincing on N5,000 note

    NLC: Sanusi isn’t convincing on N5,000 note

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday described the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s plan to introduce N5000 note as a euphemism to formalise devaluation of the  currency.

    The union called for the democratisation of the appointment of the Central Bank governor.

    The union’s Vice President, Comrade Issa Aremu, spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. He said Sanusi does not know you can’t win the argument without winning the heart of the people. He is winning the argument without convincing the people. He must learn to manage reform, but short therapy approach to reform is unhelpful.

    His words: “CBN has a right and autonomy to manage the country’s monetary policy, but there is a disconnect between the exercise of the autonomy and the broad wishes of the Nigerian people.

    “The introduction of N5000  note is the least resistant monetary policy, it is not bold. All the policy is doing is to legitimise and formalise the devaluation of Naira. When actually the bold policy of the CBN is to make sure that the value of the Naira is strengthened rather allow free fall of Naira. Naira has devalued more under Lamido Sanusi.

     

  • NLC holds summit on security, peace

    NLC holds summit on security, peace

    The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr. Abdulwahed Omar, has said the congress would hold a programme geared at proffering solution to the security challenges in parts of the country.

    Tagged, ‘Labour for Unity, Peace and Development,’ Omar, said the decision to hold the summit was informed by the deteriorating security situation in the country, despite the several measures so far taken by the government to bring peace.

    In a statement , NLC said it will organise the national peace summit and rally in Abuja .

    He said assassinations, armed robberies, bombings, communal and sectarian violence, have led to painful loss of lives, massive displacements, that are interrupting productive activities, with the attendant prospect of acute food shortages, and destruction of properties estimated at billions of naira and capital flight.

    “What is more worrisome about the insecurity in the country, is the general panic in the land that calls for the dismemberment of the country largely due to concern about government’s capacity to deal with these challenges.

    “Deeply saddening, is the growing perception of tacit or complicit support for some of these horrendous crimes by some of our elders,” Omar said.
    The parley is slated for tomorow.

  • PHCN: Nnaji has declared war –NLC

    PHCN: Nnaji has declared war –NLC

    • Wants FG to withdraw soldiers

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has described the continued presence of soldiers on the premises of the Power Holding of Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Limited, the payment of workers, retirement benefits at gun point and Federal Government’s refusal to pay the July salary as a declaration of war on workers by the Minister of Power, Prof Bath Nnaji.
    The Acting President of the congress, Comrade Promise Adewusi, told journalists in Abuja that the Federal Government should create an enabling environment for meaningful dialogue to resolve the issues at stake by calling the minister to order and withdraw soldiers from PHCN offices nationwide.
    He warned that since the government is forcing the workers to retire and go into the labour market it should not take away their benefit, which could worsen the already catastrophic situation in the country.
    “We already have enough catastrophes in the nation, but as it is, in spite of everything, we shall not mortgage the welfare because the workers’ pension and gratuity is the thing you cannot take away,” he said.
    “Prof. Nnaji has declared a war on Nigerian workers. And when he has declared a war and nobody is calling him to order, we are ready. We are calling on those who have ears because tomorrow, it will be said that labour wants to curtail this government. Let those who have ears and the capacity to call him now to order to ensure an honest process of negotiation not with fixated mind.”
    According to NLC, the minister has criminalized workers asking for their legitimate retirement benefits by resolving to describe them as terrorists and mischievous.
    On the ongoing negotiation between the government and the congress over the PHCN workers’ package and the privatization of the company, the Acting Secretary General of the congress, Comrade Chris Uyot, revealed that the state councils have been mandated to raise committees in preparation for the nationwide strike.
    He said : “we do not need any organ meeting again because that power has been invested as our own organ met in Benin. So, what happens next can be determined from this labour House. We are opened. We believe that this matter can be more amicably settled within the precinct of collective bargaining, negotiation. And we come with an open mind, we are not fixated. If we are fixated, everybody knows what is in the mind of our workers; it is either that or nothing. How are we going to approach this? Are there things that can be done to save this nation the trouble of going through turmoil that nobody knows where it will end.”