LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Industrial Court has restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress as well as their affiliates from embarking on any strike or industrial action. The unions had after an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on Tuesday in Abuja declared a total nationwide strike from November 14, 2023. The unions took…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Thursday grounded activities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International in Abuja. The move is part of actions by the unions following an attack on the president of the NLC Joe Ajaero in Imo State. . But what started as…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leaders of the organised labour – the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) – on Friday failed to attend a meeting called by the representatives of the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government in a desperate effort to avert the planned nationwide strike from October 3. According…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unions representing Nigeria’s government workers have announced they will go on strike starting next week to demand pay raises and to protest the austerity measures of the West African nation’s newly elected government. The Nigeria Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which represent hundreds of thousands of government workers across key…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday, September 5, chased staff of the Federal Ministry of finance out of the office complex in compliance with the two-day warning strike. The NLC officials came in a white Hiace bus at about 1:50 pm stormed the building, and went from office to office…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to declare a nationwide strike if there is further hike in the pump price of petrol from the existing N617 naira. It vowed to proceed on total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide shutdown of the country. This was made known by the NLC President, Joe Ajaero,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed worry over Federal Government’s promises to dispense wage award to workers since the removal of petrol subsidy in the country. Mr Joe Ajaero, the NLC President said this in a statement while reacting to the President Bola Tinubu’s speech on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress has put plans in place for a nationwide strike scheduled to begin August 2,2023, The PUNCH has reliably gathered. Though a court order which barred the congress from going on strike in June still stands, our correspondent learnt that the congress noted that it could not fold…