Organised Labour Makes Fresh Demands Ahead Of Meeting With FG

If Simon Lalong, the Minister of Labour and Employment, turns up for their meeting with the Federal Government on Monday (today), the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to boycott.

It is anticipated that the labour organisations and the federal government will reconvene to discuss the execution of the Memorandum of Understanding they both signed regarding the removal of subsidies for palliative care.

Prior to the conference, organised labour also bemoaned the terrible effects of the foreign exchange crisis on the economy and called for the naira to be stabilised immediately.

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In a statement issued on Sunday, NLC President Joe Ajaero blamed government officials for the currency’s uncontrolled decline.

In a statement titled, “Urgent action to stabilise the naira amidst alarming depreciation,” the NLC president said the repercussions of the weakened currency would be felt by workers and the masses.

He said, “Hopefully, we may meet tomorrow (today) with the federal government to see whether the agreement with organised labour on the fuel subsidy removal palliatives was met or not.

“If that meeting is to be held, it will be without the Minister of Labour and Employment (Simon Lalong) because we will not be part of any meeting with the federal government that the minister of labour and employment will attend.

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“You will recall that the decision we had on the National Union of Road Transport Workers was that all parties, including the police should leave the premises, pending the resolution of the dispute but that did not happen. Therefore, any meeting we will have with the federal government, the minister of labour and employment will not be part of it.”

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