EVER heard the phrase, “Protection Fees”? It is a new lexicon some fraudulent union leaders and management are introducing into Nigerian industrial relations practice.

EIGHT affiliates of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, who are aggrieved over the outcome of Congress 10th National Delegates Conference, NDC; National Union of Banks, Insurance, and Financial Institutions Employees

UMBRELLA bodies for workers in the nation’s Power sector; the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, and its Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart have petitioned the Presidency, rejecting the planned winding-up of PHCN, describing the moves as illegal, unconstitutional and unacceptable.

INDICATIONS have emerged that the new members of the National Administrative Council, NAC of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, put in place on March 3rd at the just concluded 10th National Delegates Conference, appeared to be in n a hurry to put behind the past memories of the past four years of general consensus that NLC did live up to expectations and return congress to a pro-people movement.

CAMPAIGN for Democratic and Workers’ Rights, CDWR, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to ensure a for full scale investigation into the over N12 billion Pension scam uncovered in the Pension Department of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation and bring everybody directly or remotely connected to crime to book.