Labour

Oil workers draw battle line against exploitative employers

Oil workers draw battle line against exploitative employers

• As new President declares war on casualisation, other unfair practices By Victor Ahiuma-Young For years, contract staffing and prolonged casual employment have remained contentious issues in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, leaving many workers performing permanent roles under the uncertainty of temporary employment. But with a new leadership at the helm of the Petroleum […]
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Electricity workers mocks Power sector privatization

Electricity workers mocks Power sector privatization

FOUR years after the sale of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has declared that the privatization has brought more harm than good, to Nigerians.

Why we oppose single regulator for up, downstream sectors – NECA, others

Why we oppose single regulator for up, downstream sectors – NECA, others

NIGERIA Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, and other members of the Organised Private Sector, OPS, have given reasons why they are opposed to a single regulatory body for the Petroleum industry as recommended in the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, pending before the National Assembly.

Save us from further deaths, ex-Nigeria Airways pensioners beg Buhari

Save us from further deaths, ex-Nigeria Airways pensioners beg Buhari

“It has been suicide and suicide everywhere. No succour. It seems Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, PICA,    and co are praying for all of us to die of subtle murder and suicide in order not to pay our pensions. Only personal intervention by President Muhammadu Buhari, can stop our sufferings and save those of us still alive from joining our departed colleagues untimely.”

ILO appoints Nigerian, Samuel-Olonjuwon Assistant DG

ILO appoints Nigerian, Samuel-Olonjuwon Assistant DG

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation, ILO, has appointed Nigerian Ms Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon as Assistant Director General, and ILO’s Regional Director for Africa, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
The appointment took effect from 10 November 2017.

Govs to spend $88m on first textile mill KTL’s revival

Govs to spend $88m on first textile mill KTL’s revival

NORTHERN Governors have earmarked $88 million as cost for the revival of the first textile mill in Nigeria, the Kaduna Textile Mill, KTL, National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has revealed.

Labour urges FG to include governors, workers in NIC

Labour urges FG to include governors, workers in NIC

‘INDUSTRY and investment are too important to be left with investors alone.” These were the words of Organised Labour while calling on the Federal Government to expand the membership of the National Industrial Council, NIC, to include labour and state governors for the council to deliver on its mandate.

Labour to employers: Retrain, don’t sack workers

Labour to employers: Retrain, don’t sack workers

I N recent times, new lexicons have been creeping into the nation’s industrial relations practice with words such as redundancy, rightsizing, downsizing, restructuring and the likes now as euphemism instead of sack. No matter which of the word use, the simple meaning is that the employer is just telling a worker that his or her services are no longer needed.

ULC, NLC at war over registration

ULC, NLC at war over registration

THE Cold War between Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, since the latter’s inauguration on December 18, 2016 has not shown any sign of easing as each of the group takes every opportunity to cast aspersions on the other.

Workers demand implementation of CONTEDISS 15

Workers demand implementation of CONTEDISS 15

WORRIED over the non-implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Educational Institutions Salary Structure, CONTEDISS 15, 10 years after approval, Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education, SSUCOEN, in South West, has demanded that the Federal Government ensure its immediate implementation .

Sub-regional trade unions, CSOs brainstorm in Nigeria

Sub-regional trade unions, CSOs brainstorm in Nigeria

IT was a gathering of Trade Unions and civil society organisations, CSOs in the West African sub-region on the auspices of West African Networking Meeting on Continental Rights Based Social Protection Project.

Our fears for Nigerian economy — NECA

Our fears for Nigerian economy — NECA

THE dust raised by National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, recent report that Nigeria has exited the excruciating economic recession on the ground that Nigerian economy grew in real terms for the first time in 15 months in the second quarter of 2017, will take time to settle as concerned individuals and groups have continued to comment  on it.