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”.