THE increasing loss of jobs and high level of depletion in membership were parts of the focal issues that dominated the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

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.

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.

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“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.”

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.

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.

‘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.

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.