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Labour Shuts Down National Grid, Precipitates Nationwide Blackout

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Labour Shuts Down National Grid, Precipitates Nationwide Blackout

By Oyez Olatunde Rex The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Monday disclosed that the “labour union has shut down” the national grid, precipitating a blackout nationwide. This development is coming as the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, commenced the earlier declared indefinite nationwide strike on Monday.Organized Labour…

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FG Owe Us Three Months Wage Award, Other Arrears – Federal Workers

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FG Owe Us Three Months Wage Award, Other Arrears – Federal Workers

Workers on the platform of the Federal Workers Forum (FWF) have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently pay the three-month wage award and other arrears owed to the workers. The workers made this declaration during an online meeting of the forum held on Saturday. A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting…

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Return To Negotiating Table, FG Tells Organized Labour

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Return To Negotiating Table, FG Tells Organized Labour

The Federal Government on Saturday appealed to the organised labour to halt its planned strike and return to the negotiating table. The appeal is coming barely a day after the organized Labour declared commencement of an industrial action from Monday 3rd of June,. The Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris urged labour to…

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Nationwide Blackout On The Horizon As Electricity Workers Threatens Down Tool Sunday

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Nationwide Blackout On The Horizon As Electricity Workers Threatens Down Tool Sunday

Nationwide blackouts imminent across Nigeria as electricity workers have disclosed that they will be withdrawing their services from Sunday midnight for the organized labour’s indefinite strike beginning on Monday. The acting General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, Dominic Igwebike, disclosed this in a statement on Friday. This is in compliance with the…

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Organized Labour Begins Indefinite Strike From Monday Over Minimum Wage, Electricity Tariff Hike

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Organized Labour Begins Indefinite Strike From Monday Over Minimum Wage, Electricity Tariff Hike

Following inability to reach common grounds in the stalled negotiations on a new national minimum wage and reversal of the hike in the electricity tariff, Organised Labour has declared an indefinite nationwide strike from Monday, June 3rd. Earlier this week, Organised Labour negotiators had walked out of the meeting for a third time, over the…

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Why Labour Rejected ₦60,000 Minimum Wage Offer – Osifo

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Why Labour Rejected ₦60,000 Minimum Wage Offer – Osifo

The president of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Festus Osifo, has expressed the reasons the organized labour rejected the fresh ₦60,000 offered by the federal government as the minimum wage for workers. The organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the third time on Tuesday,…

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Govt – Labour Minimum Wage Negotiation To Resume Following Rejection of FG’s N54,000 Offer

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Govt – Labour Minimum Wage Negotiation To Resume Following Rejection of FG’s N54,000 Offer

Talks on a new minimum wage will continue today.Yesterday, the Federal Government raised its offer from N48,000 to N54,000. Labour, which proposed N615,000 declined to reduce its proposal. The private sector offered N56,000 at the first meeting of the Tripartite Committee. The governors’ offer may be made today because their representatives promised at yesterday’s meeting,…

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Minimum Wage Negotiation Walkout: FG, Labour To Reconvene

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Minimum Wage Negotiation Walkout: FG, Labour To Reconvene

Following a forced adjournment of negotiation meeting, a consequence not Labour walking out of the meeting, the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage will reconvene on Tuesday, May 23. It is believed that progress will be made in negotiating a reasonable new minimum wage for workers, after the organised labour walked out of the negotiation on…

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TUC Condemns FG’s N48,000 Minimum Wage Proposal, Says It Doesn’t Make Sense

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TUC Condemns FG’s N48,000 Minimum Wage Proposal, Says It Doesn’t Make Sense

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has condemned the N48,000 proposed by the Federal Government as the new minimum wage, saying that it does not make any sense. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, the TUC President, Festus Osifo, blasted the proposal and berated the government for not being serious in the negotiation with…

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ASUU May Embark On Fresh Nationwide Strike

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ASUU May Embark On Fresh Nationwide Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened another nationwide strike to protest absence of governing councils in all federal universities across the country among other issues the Federal Government is yet to address. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, issued the threat at an ongoing press conference at the union’s national secretariat in Abuja….

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