ALMAGALMATED Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, has blamed states for the wave of industrial unrest over the N18.000 new minimum wage in most states, lamenting that the industrial action is avoidable.

“The unfortunate thing about your plight is that the accident happened before the law came into effect. If not, it will not have been too much of a headache to you or anybody else.”

The world over, labour and industrial sector is central to the government’s agenda. Little wonder countries like the United States of America, France, Germany and the rest of the developed countries do not toy with the industrial sector of the economy because of the important roles the labour sector plays in the attainment of the government’s agenda and development of any nation.

NIgeria Union of Pensioners, NUP, has cried out over undue delay in the payment of members’s monthly pensions.

AHEAD of September 30, 2011 deadline given to the rescued banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to recapitalize or face nationalization among others, the management of Union Bank Plc and organized labour has been been meeting to resolve the lingering dispute over benefits to about 2000 former workers especially those retired between 2006 and 2008.

NATIONAL Pension Commission, PenCom is to would initiate processes to automate retirement benefits approval process to ensure retirees get their retirement benefits as and when due.

It was Monday September 5, just some minutes after 2pmwhen five frail looking men came to Kirikiri Canal, Apapa, Lagos, Corporate Head Office of Vanguard Newspapers to protest alleged abandonment by their employers, APM Terminals, one of the Terminal Operators running the nation’s Ports, after sustaining various degrees of life threatening injuries on duty.

Mister Victor Eburajalor, a former President of Chattered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, is a Deputy Group Managing Director, DGM, of Kewelran Chanrai Group, owners of defunct Textile manufacturing giant, Afprint, closed down because of harsh operating environment.

MISTER Victor Eburajalor, a former President of Chattered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria, CIPM, is a Deputy Group Managing Director, DGM, of Kewelran Chanrai Group, owners of defunct Textile manufacturing giant, Afprint, closed down because of harsh operating environment.

LEADERS of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the Joint Negotiating Committee, JNC, on Monday called off the strike they declared six days earlier.

National Union of Textile, Garment, tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has appealed Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos, over the continuous closure of United Textile, UNT, PLC, Ikorodu, by Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA.

“Beyond the New Minimum Wage NMW, Act, of 2011, another critical labour market law of our time is the Employees’ Compensation Act, ECA, 2010.”

BARRING last minute settlement, the organized labour and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, may engage in public disagreement over their different postures regarding the N18.000 minimum wage row.

THERE are indications that Nigerians will be in for hard times from Monday following threat by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to embark on a three-day warning strike over dispute with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC.

INDICATIONS have emerged that the private sector unions whose members earn more than the N18.000 new minimum wage, will still be favoured by the new wage.