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Liberia:
Labour Congress Wants Work Bill Enacted
New Dawn, 2 May 2012
The Liberia Labor Congress has called on the country's 53rd Legislature to redirect its focus on the passage of the Decent Work Bill, which seeks to set standards for the workforce… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Fashola - We Can't Be Stampeded Into Paying Minimum Wage
This Day, 2 May 2012
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has said he cannot be stampeded into paying a national minimum wage he did not participate in negotiating and for which the fund to pay is… Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - I'll No Longer Pay Any Wage Imposed By FG - Fashola
Vanguard, 2 May 2012
GOVERNOR Babatude Fashola of Lagos, yesterday, told Lagos workers that henceforth his government would no longer pay any wage imposed by the Federal Government unless the state was… Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - Ebonyi Workers Boo Elechi
Vanguard, 2 May 2012
AGGRIEVED workers in Ebonyi State yesterday booed Governor Martin Elechi over non-implementation of the N18, 000 National Minimum wage in the state. Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - Workers Cry Out Over Insecurity
Vanguard, 2 May 2012
AGAINST the backdrop of unrestrained reign of terror across the country with its attendant loss of lives, Nigerian workers, yesterday, spoke with one voice expressing fear and… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Labour Suggests Way Out of Security Challenge
Leadership, 1 May 2012
The Kwara chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have urged the Federal Government to rise decisively to the security challenge in the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Labour Decries Growing Unemployment, Inflation
Daily Trust, 1 May 2012
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to review some of its policies which, it said, tended to worsen the unemployment and inflationary rates in… Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - NLC, TUC Call for Unbundling of NNPC
Leadership, 1 May 2012
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called on the Federal Government to carry out urgent reforms in the NNPC. Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - Jonathan Appeals to Workers On National Devt
Leadership, 1 May 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan has appealed to Nigerian workers to complement government's efforts to ensure rapid socio-economic development by maintaining highest ideals of quality… Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - Labour Demands Another Review of Minimum Wage
This Day, 1 May 2012
Labour leaders are using the opportunity of today's May Day celebration to agitate for a further review of the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers. Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day - Workers Are Now Poorer, Insecure - Labour
Vanguard, 1 May 2012
ORGANISED Labour in the country, looked at the conditions of Nigerian workers since the last May Day, and declared that workers are now poorer and insecure both at work and at… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Unfair Labour Practices, Rights Denial Rule Work Places
Vanguard, 1 May 2012
THE Theme of today's May Day celebration in Nigeria, "Right to work, Food and Education: Panacea to Insecurity", would not have come at a better time. But beyond speeches and… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Another Labour Day
Vanguard, 1 May 2012
SPEECHES are guaranteed. Workers will march, if there is security. Everything else about May 1, Labour Day, is uncertain, a reflection of the hard times that abound and the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Labour Party Wants Oshiomole's Accident Probed
Daily Trust, 1 May 2012
Following the weekend accident involving the convoy of Governor Adams Oshiomole which led to the death of three journalists, the Labour Party (LP) has called for a comprehensive… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Time for Reflection On Workers' Day
Daily Trust, 1 May 2012
Workers worldwide today mark the traditional Workers' Day. Read more »
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Nigeria:
May Day Must Retain Its Focus
Vanguard, 22 April 2010
With a few weeks to May Day popular among the working class as " Workers Day", trade unions around the world have lined up activities to mark May Day. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Workers' Day Beyond the Rally
Vanguard, 1 May 2012
IT is May Day. As usual Nigerian workers will join their counterparts worldwide to organize rallies, essentially protest rallies to draw attention to issues of interest to the… Read more »