THE Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, and the Association of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employers Association, AFBTE, are collaborating with a view to further promoting the quality of products manufactured by AFBTE.

ORGANISED Labour has reiterated its call on the Federal Government to review the privatization of the Power sector as the nation continues to grapple with worsening power supply.

Unions must insist that the security of workers’ employment and focusing on the optimum capacity utilization of the refineries that would protect the interests of the workers and Nigerians are not negotiable

THE Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ISSSAN, and its Steel and Engineering Workers Union of Nigeria, SEWUN, counterpart, have raised the alarm over perceived untold hardship, suffering and dehumanization of defunct Delta Steel Company, DSC, workers in the last five years of closure.

It is our belief that the destruction of our work places will destroy the society

FOR Nigerian workers, the past one year was a year they will never forget in a hurry. It was a year of massive depreciation of workers’ purchasing power, job losses, unpaid salaries and other benefits and general high cost of living. So, ahead of May 1 Workers’ Day celebration, otherwise known as May Day, top of workers’ worries are poor wage, job losses, unemployment, insecurity.

THE crisis rocking the Labour movement in Nigeria, is fast assuming a dangerous dimension as Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, for the second time in less than two months, have written the Minister of Labour and Employment over the new labour centre: the United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC. This time, they are contending that ULC and some unions seeking registration should not be registered to avert anarchy in the nation’s industrial relations system.

The National Pension Commission, PenCom, has pleaded with the National Assembly to approve N79, 155,550,000.00 to pay pension increase of 79,961 pensioners on the Defined Contributory Scheme, DCS, from 2004 to 2014

Government at all levels and arms should abide with rule of law, corruption should not be tolerated. We are here to identify with government in its resolve to fight corruption

The Senate President, Sen. Bukola Saraki has declared that the country can no longer continue with the present N18, 000 minimum wage for workers.

AS stakeholders explore different strategies to tackle the employment crisis in the country, the Federal Government is stepping its efforts towards the effective take off of its Skills Acquisition Training programme in 18 states of the federation.

THE global unemployment rate is expected to rise modestly from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent in 2017 representing an increase of 3.4 million in the number of jobless persons, a new International Labour Organisation, ILO, report has shown.

AHEAD of the fourth quadrennial national delegates conference, NDC, of the Maritime Workers of Nigeria, MWUN, President-General of the Union, Anthony Emmanuel Nted, has raised the alarm that some disgruntled elements have been spreading malicious information against his person.

AS controversy over the alleged police killing of Daniel Osikoya, a Chi Food Nigeria Limited, Lagos, casual worker on December 30, 2016, and injuring of another, Victor Oyare, during an industrial unrest, rages on, parents of late Osikoya have pleaded with organized labour to assist them to get justice.

THE three Labour Centres in the country; theNigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, in their new year messages to workers and the general masses, were unanimous that 2016 was very difficult for workers and indeed, ordinary Nigerians. They equally agreed that there are no or little signs that 2017 will be better either.