Nigeria: NLC, TUC, ULC At War Over Unions' Registration

2 March 2017

The crisis rocking the Labour movement in Nigeria, is fast assuming a dangerous dimension as Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, for the second time in less than two months, have written the Minister of Labour and Employment over the new labour centre: the United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC. This time, they are contending that ULC and some unions seeking registration should not be registered to avert anarchy in the nation's industrial relations system.

But ULC on its part, told the Minister to ignore their ranting, insisting that the nation's laws were clear on the processes of registration, declaring that "the time for raising the fine points of the law are clearly not now as it does not have any intentions of turning the Federal Ministry of Labour into a law court."

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