In solidarity with ASUU, NLC to embark on 3 days warning strike

In solidarity with ASUU, NLC to embark on 3 days warning strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has threatened to embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike, in solidarity with the Academic and Staff Union Universities (ASUU)’s lingering action with the Federal Government of Nigeria.

This was contained in a communique signed by the NLC President Ayuba Wabba and General Secretary Emma Ugboajah at the end of its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Abuja.

The communique by NLC said: “Within the span of the subsisting 21-day ultimatum given by Congress, NLC will hold national protests against the current strike action affecting students of Nigeria’s public universities, and occasioned by government’s failure to honour the agreement reached with trade unions in our universities.

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“The protest is to draw the attention of the government to the inherent catastrophe in the emerging culture of social apartheid in our society, especially as marked by a prolonged lockout of students from working-class and poor homes, while children of the rich continue their academic pursuits uninterrupted.”

It further stated that “If at the end of the national protest and the 21-day ultimatum, the federal government still fails to resolve the industrial crises in Nigeria’s universities, the Congress would be left with no other option but to embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike action, in solidarity with our affiliates in the universities and with Nigerian students whose future and wellbeing are being robbed.”

The NLC called for the declaration of an all-out war against terrorists and their sponsors, including those who diverted funds meant to fight insurgency.

It further called on the government to focus on the immediate release from captivity, of all abducted citizens, while also calling on them to nip in the bud current intelligence on the threat by terrorists to resort to mass bombings.

The meeting also called on the governments of Taraba, Cross River and Zamfara states to immediately commence payment of the arrears of national minimum wage owed their workers. It also called on the Abia State government to immediately clear the backlog of pension arrears owed its retirees.