By Victor Ahiuma-Young

ABUJA—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, has set up a 6-man action committee on planned industrial action against Imo State government over the sack of 3000 workers, unpaid salaries and other benefits of the state workforce.

The committee will also address the recent Federal Government’s removal of fuel subsidy and increase in electricity tariff.

This came as the Hassan Sunmonu-led Reconciliatory Committee, RC, took a major step towards resolving the protracted factional crisis rocking the NLC by  appointing a 7-man panel to address the issue of parallel executives in the 36 states and Abuja.

It will be recalled that the Ajaero led faction had Friday, January 22, issued a 14 day ultimatum to the government to recall the sacked workers and pay their benefits, among others or the state would be shut down by labour.

Briefing, Mr. Joe Ajaero, alongside other leaders of his faction, said within the next 14 days, the Imo State government must purge itself of unlawful actions including “the governor rescinding the illegal sacking of 3,000 of our members, all those workers said to have been sacked be recalled immediately and their entitlements fully paid,” among others.