KADUNA — The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to reembark on its suspended industrial strike in Kaduna state due to a breach of the agreement by the government.
The Congress had on May 18 halted all activities and embarked on five days warning strike to protest the decision of Governor Nasir El-Rufai to lay off civil servants.
WAP had reported how the state government threatened to sack the protesting workers rather than discontinue the planned mass disengagement of civil servants.
With the intervention of the federal government, the NLC suspended the strike after two days and went into negotiation with the government to resolve the matter.
However, in a meeting on Tuesday, the NLC indicated that it has resolved to resume the suspended strike because the state, as against the outcome of the meeting brokered by the federal government, has started to sack its workers.
While addressing reporters at the end of the meeting, the Congress president, Ayuba Wabba said the congress, after exhausting all avenues has decided to resume the strike.
“Owing to the above grievous infractions and continued provocation by the Kaduna State government against workers and trade unions in the state and although we have also complained formally to the federal government through the President, and Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment on the non-adherence to the MoU, NEC has resolved that the earlier decision to withdraw all services and protest this neo-liberal and extreme right-wing policy should take effect without further delay.
“Mobilisation of all our state councils and all affiliates should take place immediately and all employers of labor should be put on notice as required by our extant laws”, he said.
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