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Nigeria Questions How Unions Called Off Strike

There are strong indications that the organized labour willfully circumvented its own rules, when it called off the much trumpeted three-day warning strike.
Vanguard

Cartoon of workers demanding pay rise from the government.

Gbemiga Olamikan/Vanguard

Negotiating the enactment of the Minimum Wage Bill.

NLC

Nigeria Labour Congress Members protesting.

  • Nigeria:   Did Unions Breach Rules By Calling Off Strike?

    Leadership, 21 July 2011

    There are strong indications that the organized labour willfully circumvented its own rules, when it called off the much trumpeted three-day warning strike. Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Labour Halts Planned Strike

    Vanguard, 20 July 2011

    Leaders of the nation's labour movement, midnight, called off the three day warning strike they earlier declared to protest the reluctance of the Federal and state governments to… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Labour Suspends Strike

    This Day, 20 July 2011

    It was close, very close but organised labour finally decided early Wednesday morning to call off its three-day warning strike which was planned to commence Wednesday. Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Workers Call Off Strike

    Daily Champion, 20 July 2011

    The tension between the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and government over implementation of the provision of the Minimum Wage Act may have temporarily eased off… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Total Strike Looms Nationwide

    Vanguard, 19 July 2011

    There is every indication that the three day warning strike organized by labour will begin tomorrow as the meeting between the Federal Government and labour, yesterday, ended in a… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   NLC's Warning Strike

    Daily Trust, 18 July 2011

    Officials of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in conjunction with the Trade Union Congress (TUC) said they would order their members to commence a three-day warning strike this… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Labour Shuns Governors, Insists on Strike

    Independent (Lagos), 17 July 2011

    Labour on Sunday took the resolution of Governors to pay the N18,000 minimum wage with a pinch of salt, dismissing it as a ploy to woo workers back to another round of aimless… Read more »

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