FEW days ago, the leadership of the two workers’ organisations, the National Union of Electricity, NUEE, and its Senior Staff, Association of Senior Electricity and Allied Companies, SSAEAC, counterpart, held an interactive meeting with Journalists and claimed among others, that the government has not informed them of its planned to privatise the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, and that all discussions with government’s representatives have been centred on attempts to re-negotiate agreements reached with PHCN’s management on their welfare and conditions of service.

The financial and economic crisis has cut global wage growth by half in 2008 and 2009, says a new report by the International Labour Office, ILO.

FEW days ago bank workers under the umbrella of the Senior Staff Association of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, gathered in the ancient city of Abeokuta, Ogun State, to review activities of the association for past years, the socio-economic and political environments in the country and to elect a new set of leaders to run the affairs of the Association for the next three years.

NIGERIA Union of Pensioners, has raised alarm over perceived serious irregularities in the Federal Civil Pension Administration which NUP said have affected the pensioners negatively that they are now faced with untold hardship and suffering.

NO fewer than three thousand, six hundred and sixty employers have been sanctioned through the imposition of monetary penalty by the National Pension Commission, PENCOM for violating the provisions of Pension Reform Act, PRA of 2004.