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Labour Planned Strike Action Postponed By Two Weeks - The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC)

On Tuesday in Abuja at the end of their National Executive Council meetings, the Presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, issued a joint press conference. Ajaero said after obtaining feedback from the union’s state councils in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, the NLC decided to defer the planned stay-at-home directive given to workers last week.

Thus, the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have decided to suspend their planned strike aimed at protesting the scarcity of naira notes, which was earlier scheduled for today, Wednesday.

The two unions said they would monitor the availability of cash in commercial banks for two weeks before deciding on the next line of action.

Ajaero said. “Yes, there has been compliance but the NLC, after its NEC meeting, doubted the sustainability of the compliance.

“We have to monitor this compliance for the next two weeks to see whether it is sustainable because they have rushed to move money to commercial banks and some of them are getting empty again.

“It will be very naive for the congress to hurriedly call off the action. Whereas we are not shutting down tomorrow, we will want to loosen up for another two weeks with committees set up at the national level and all the states of the federation to coordinate compliance.

"There are some banks that didn’t open at the weekend. We advise the CBN to play the role of the regulator. They can sanction banks that are not complying. The first and second day, the CBN said the money they were pushing per week they were pushing it daily; I wouldn’t know if they are still pushing it daily.

"They have constrained the banking sector. Nigerians have suffered so much. Even those who have withdrawn N10, 000 are afraid to bring it out in case the scarcity returns.

“The NLC and TUC have decided to allow tomorrow pass without any shutdown or picketing but to watch the next two weeks.”

The TUC president gave assurance that the union would continue to protect the interest of workers and Nigerians.

On another note, at the 68th session of the State House Ministerial Briefing the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, said that his ministry coordinated negotiations between the unions and the CBN to avert the strike. He therefore assured Nigerians that the Federal Government had prevented the nationwide strike planned by the NLC and the TUC.

He said, “There’s already a dialogue going on and there’s also implementation and the Nigerian Labour Congress agreed that there was some thawing at the surface of the icing that was there.

"By Section 7(8) of Trade Dispute Act, once the minister apprehends and starts conciliation on it, you maintain status quo ante bellum. So they have gone back now to review the situation. If they’re not satisfied with what they’re seeing, they will come back to me and I’ll invite the CBN again.”

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