Nigerian workers and civil servants affiliated with the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, stayed off work on Tuesday as a devastating work stoppage rocks Africa’s largest economy.
Electricity workers, postal and telecommunications workers, bankers, medical and health workers, maritime workers, courts of law, railway workers, academic staff of tertiary institutions, and local government employees, among others, all joined the strike.
The labour unions, NLC and TUC, last Tuesday, November 7, made their joint plans to withdraw their services today public.
The strike, they said, is a revolt against the battering and abduction 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 same state by Governor Hope Uzodimma.
The nationwide strike is also in solidarity with the NLC/TUC chapter in Imo State which boycotted work since last Wednesday, according to directives from the national leadership of the NLC/TUC.
Meanwhile, the National Industrial Court in the capital city Abuja barred the unions from going ahead with the strike on November 11. Yet, the workers defied the order.
TUC President, Festus Osifo, at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, gave no duration of the strike, but only said the strike would end when “governments at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”
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