Tag: Labour
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Labour hails Buhari’s public service sector reform
Organized labour has hailed Buhari administration for initiating unprecedented far-reaching public sector reforms without retrenchment of the workforce and at the same time unleashed opportunities for mass decent employment. A member of the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) Comrade Issa Aremu made this observation in Kaduna at the reception for the members of…
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Labour demands N56,000, rejects N30,000 minimum wage offered by lawmakers
The Organised labour has rejected a plan by the House of Representatives, seeking the upward review of the minimum wage for Nigerian workers to N30,000. President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Bobboi Kaigama, on Saturday said the organised labour is demanding N56,000. “The procedure is for the tripartite body to sit down and agree…
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We’ll shut down oil, power sectors indefinitely if FG does not accede to our demands tomorrow – Labour
The United Labour Congress, ULC, and its affiliate unions have threatened to shut down the oil and power sectors by Friday if the Federal Government does not meet its demands. TheNewsGuru.com reports that other affiliates of the union that promised to shut down the sectors by Friday include Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas…
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Recession exit: No recovery until labour, wage issues are addressed – Aremu
The organized labour has said Nigeria economy had the potential of faster recovery not just exiting recession, if the Federal and states’ governments had put an end to current persistent crisis of compensation of the working class manifesting in what it terms as “criminal” non-payment and delayed payments of salaries by many states governments despite…
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Ortom’s appeal holds no water, we’ll commence strike Sept 5 – Labour
The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress in Benue have rejected Gov. Samuel Ortom’s appeal against a one-week warning strike proposed to start September 5. The warning strike is the first step by the workers who have declared a labour dispute with the state government over the non-payment of salaries. The workers, in…
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Labour hails Buhari on non-negotiable National Unity
Organized labour has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s appreciation speech on Monday describing it as “truly presidential” “timely” and “reassuring on the unity and “indissolubility” of Nigeria as a Federal Republic. In a statement in Kaduna, Comrade Issa Aremu, the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile and Garment Workers of Nigeria, (NUTGWN) an affiliate…
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FEC approves new policies for oil, labour, insists fuel importation will end by 2019
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved new policies for oil and labour sectors of the economy. This was revealed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Dr. Ibe Kachikwu and Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige in an interview with State House correspondents after the FEC meeting in Abuja. TheNewsGuru.com reports that…
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Wike lambasts labour, says ‘you pulled down heaven during Jonathan’s tenure but keep quiet under Buhari’
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday accused leaders of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) of keeping quiet under the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government despite several unfavourable policies but ‘almost pulled down the heavens for any slight action of former President Goodluck Jonathan’ Wike further accused the labour leaders of gradually turning…
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Labour ready to ‘serve the people’ in minority government – Corbyn
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the party has emerged as the winner in Britain’s snap election and is “ready to serve the people who have given their trust” to it. Corbyn while speaking to the BBC on Friday, said: “We put forward our policies – strong and hopeful policies – and have gained an amazing…
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Labour productivity rises in Q4 of 2016 – NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that the country saw a rise in labour productivity in the fourth quarter of 2016, the highest levels since first quarter of 2015. The NBS said this in its Labour Productivity for Fourth Quarter of 2016 Report released on Thursday in Abuja. The bureau stated that while the…