EMPLOYERS in the Shipping/Courier sector of the Maritime industry have reach agreement with organized labour how modalities for sustainable gratuity in the sector.

National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, and IndustriALL Global Union, IGU, have worrisome is the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of workers of Kaduna Textiles Limited, KTL, since 2002 by its owner-19 Northern States of the Federation.

WEDNESDAY, May 1, Nigerian workers celebrated the Workers’ Day like their counterparts across the globe, besides the United States of America, USA. For Nigerian workers, this year’s celebration was very significant because it was the last before the centenary celebration of Nigeria’s nationhood.

UNION Bank pensioners, have petitioned the National Pension Commission, PenCom, accusing the management of the bank of breach of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to their detriment.

THERE is no end in sight as lecturers in all the four tertiary institutions owned by Osun state and the government have continued to flex muscles over unremitted pension deduction and age of retirement for the lecturers.

FEDERAL Ministry of Labour and Productivity, called on organized labour in the country to report workplace accidents to appropriate authorities for necessary action prevent regular occurrence.

THERE is no end in sight as lecturers in all the four tertiary institutions owned by Osun state and the government have continued to flex muscles over unremitted pension deduction and age of retirement for the lecturers.

IN time past, aggrieved workers, pensioners and even jobless Nigerians trouped to Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, offices across the country, to seek for redress and intervention in their plight. Redress and intervention they were getting that employers were not only thinking twice before victimizing workers, they were indeed afraid to victimize workers because the fear of labour was the beginning of wisdom for employers perceived as anti-labour.

UNION Bank pensioners, have petitioned the National Pension Commission, PenCom, accusing the management of the bank of breach of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, to their detriment.

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

MORE troubles are  on the way for Teidi Shuaibu and 39 other persons standing trial for allegedly siphoning N12 billion Federal Civil servants’ pension funds.

Teidi, a former Director of Pension Administration in the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation and others were also standing trial for the missing funds.

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ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s Textile Industry, has expressed concern over the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of workers in closed textile companies of Kaduna Textiles Limited, Arewa Textiles Plc, Finetex/Nortex Limited by the respective owners.

ORGANISED Labour has given reasons why it called off the April 10, nationwide mass protest including the work-free-day declared in Lagos and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, in solidarity with pensioners over their unpaid benefits.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s Textile Industry, has expressed concern over the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of workers in closed textile companies of Kaduna Textiles Limited, Arewa Textiles Plc, Finetex/Nortex Limited by the respective owners.

National Industrial Court, NIC, has ordered the management of Gaskiya Textile Mill Kano, to immediately pay a total of N128, 394,220.33 to its former workers and the National Union of Textile and Garment, Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN for legitimate gratuity and outstanding union dues.

THE April 10, 2013 national protest by Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over the plight the plight of pensioners in the country is already gathering momentum. Already reports across the country indicated that state councils of NLC had begun moblisation of members for the protest.

GOVERNING council members face contempt cargeTHIRTEEN members of the Governing Council, The Polytechnic, Ibadan including the Chairman of the council, Professor Oladapo Afolabi, risk being committed to prison over alleged violation of a court order.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to ensure all individuals standing trail for the embezzlement of pension fund are brought to book with maximum penalty.

NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has heaped curses on individuals and groups directly or indirectly inflicting hardships and pains on the nation’s pensioners.

MONDAY, March 4, 2013,members of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, gathered in Abuja, for their 3rd Quadrennial Delegates Conference, QDC, to take stock of how the union fared in the last four years.It climaxed with the re-election of Comrade Emmanuel Anthony Nted, as President-General of the union for the next four years.

FEDERAL Government has kicked off a process that could generate over 300,000 jobs for unemployed Nigerians as it inaugurated committee on installation of surveillance and traffic cameras and other equipment in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.