COMRADE Bobboi Bala Kaigama, is the recently elected President of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC. In this interview with Labour Vanguard, Kaigama, who is also the President General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, speaks on his vision for TUC among others. Excerpts

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have threatened to mobilize members against the Senate over bi to remove labour from the exclusive list and deregulate the national minimum wage.

So, we said fine. If you don’t have problems with NASU why did you set up the reconciliation committee in the first instance? It’s a simple question. They claim they don’t have a problem with NASU but by the time the committee was set up, John Odah was already at the National Industrial Court. So they could not have constituted the reconciliation committee because of him.

THE just concluded 102nd International Labour Conference, ILC, did not only afford Nigeria an opportunity to showcase her job creation initiatives among others, to the world, it also provided her an avenue to ask for adequate and equitable regional representation and distribution of all resources, including the recruitment of personnel of the developing nations at all levels of the International Labour Organisation.

Recent developments within the labour movement indeed the Nigeria Labour Congress,NLC, gives one cause for concern especially when viewed against the backdrop of the NLC’s slogan of “ sustaining and deepening democracy”.

Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Osun State Government to immediately commence the payment of outstanding pension and pension arrears of retirees in the state, lamenting that some of the state pensioners have not been paid a kobo in the last six months.

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has warned that the planned removal of the national minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list to concurrent by the Senate, would spell doom for the nation.

ON Friday, June 28, the National Pension Commission, PenCom, submitted a position paper to the Senate Committee on Establishments and Public Service and the House Committee on Pensions, at the joint public hearing on the Bill for an Act to repeal the Pension Reform Act 2004 and enact the Pension Reform Act, 2013, to make provision for Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, and for connected matters. For record purposes, beginning from this edition, Pension and You, will publish the presentation of PenCom, the regulator in the Pension industry.

NIGERIA has become the 37th member state to ratifiy the Maritime Labour Convention at the just concluded 102 conference of the International Labour Organisation held in Geneva, Switzerland. Labour and Productivity minister, Chief Emeka Wogu presented the instrument of ratification to the director-general of the ILO, Mr. Guy Rider in Geneva.

THE Nigeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, has lamented the non payment of the 14 months pension arrears contrary to the directives of President Goodluck Jonathan for immediate payment of the arrears of the check- off dues owed the union.