The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and its sister union, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, are going ahead with their planned nationwide strike despite being barred from doing so by the National Industrial Court in Abuja last Friday.
The strike is to protest the battering of the NLC President Joe Ajaero by security agents in Imo State on November 1 as well as the “infractions and encroachments on the rights” of civil servants in the State by Governor Hope Uzodimma.
At a press briefing on Monday, the TUC President, Festus Osifo, said the strike became inevitable because the federal government failed to meet their demands.
“We said those who brutalised Joe Ajaero, the President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, should be relieved of their jobs and prosecuted,” he said.
“Instead of taking action, some government officials started running their mouths, talking carelessly. All the arms of the NLC and TUC have been mobilised to start action.”
Osifo noted that the strike would go on until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”
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