Nigeria: May Day - Stakeholders Decry Diminishing Relevance of Trade Unions

29 April 2014

As Nigeria Workers prepare to celebrate this Year's May Day across the country, Linda Eroke writes that there is diminishing solidarity in the trade unions and harps on the need for trade unions to be responsive to their role of promoting the collective interest of workers.

Nigerian workers will Thursday join their counterparts in other parts of the world to celebrate May Day. Traditionally, May Day is a day that workers, all over the world celebrate the achievements of trade unions and labour movements in its struggle to defend the rights and interests of the working class.

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