Nigeria: Organised Labour and the Poor

In this article first published in 2007 but whose import is still germane, Soyombo Opeyemi of the Editorial Board of Independent Newspapers Limited reflects on the cost of the NLC-TUC strike to the majority of the working class in Nigeria, who are in the informal sector...

'It's going to be a long-drawn strike; we advise Nigerians to stock their homes with foodstuffs; there is no retreat, no surrender until government meets our demands.' That is the refrain of the Organised Labour anytime strikes loom in the country.

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