THE Trade Union Congress, TUC, in the early hours of Monday, threatened to resume the suspended strike if after two weeks the Federal Government did not follow up with the agreements reached at the end of the joint meeting between the government and the organised labour.

Organized labour, in the early hours of Monday, suspended the proposed strike over increase in prices of petrol and electricity tariff.

Policemen arrested no fewer than 50 person, including a Vanguard photo-journalist, Kehinde Shonola, yesterday, during the protest against the increase in the price of fuel and electricity tariff.

Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Monday, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari, demanding immediate reversal of the hikes in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff, among other demands, in the next seven days, or face indefinite industrial action.

Joint Action Front, JAF, has expressed disapproval over the new hike in prices of fuel, electricity and Value Added Tax, VAT, in the country. The group also revealed plans to commence an indefinite nationwide protest beginning from September 16, to press home their anger.

Pro-labour civil society organisations, on the platform of Joint Action Front, JAF, has said the Federal Government had, in 2016, promised to use the gains and differential from the hike in the pump price of petrol to provide welfare and social services to Nigerians as well as fix the nation’s four refineries.

THE Federal Government has approved additional N8 billion to be released immediately for the payment of special/hazard allowances for medical doctors. The Federal Government also set two weeks timeline for the payment of the N4 billion Medical Residency Training for 2020 to striking resident doctors.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has taken up arms against Total E&P and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over unpaid benefits to members of the union by Valiant Energy Services, a service contractor to both multinational oil companies.

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By Victor Ahiuma-Young There is no doubt that like other private-sector workers, this is one the most trying periods for workers in the nation’s petroleum industry as the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened their plight. Oil workers are faced with increasing challenges of job security and unfair labour practices, among others in the wake of the […]

Organised labour in the nation’s power sector has rejected a recent directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, that banks should take over the collection of electricity bills from Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Sunday, denied holding a meeting with Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, over last Wednesday’s sack of members, insisting that the seven-day strike notice subsists.

The National Industrial Court, NIC, sitting in Lagos has granted an ex parte injunction restraining the executives of the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees, UFBTE from conducting its emergency Conference scheduled for Friday, August 21.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Thursday, issued a seven-day nationwide strike notice over the alleged non-procedural sack of members by Chevron Nigeria Limited and its service contractors on Wednesday.

Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, has warned against plans by the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, PTAD, to remove 23,089 parastatals pensioners from the Federal Government’s payroll, faulting claims by PTAD that they are dead.