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By Lawani Mikairu There are indications that Nigeria airspace may be closed on Monday if the aviation workers unions carry out their threat to back the Organised Labour nationwide strike expected to commence on Monday. According to the General Secretary of the National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, Mr Aba Ocheme, the aviation unions
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Healthcare workers at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Monday, joined the nationwide strike called by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many essential places in the hospital, including the pharmacy, the medical records section and two of the main gates into the hospital were locked.
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By Chioma Obinna The National Executive Council, NEC, of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Friday announced its resolve to proceed on an indefinite nationwide strike beginning from Monday 7th of September 2020 over non-implementation of life insurance and residency training among others. The indefinite strike, according to a communiqué it issued after a
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By Chioma Obinna Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, will next week Monday commence a nationwide industrial action should the Federal Government fails to meet its demands. National President of the association, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba who disclosed this in an official letter with reference number NARD/SG/2019-2020/070620/246 said the ‘painful ‘action became necessary”
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Workers in the nation’s Power sector early this morning locked up Power Distribution Companies, DISCOs, and Power Generation companies, GENCOs, across the country and began a nationwide strike over unresolved Labour issues.
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By Chidi Nkwopara, Owerri Palpable anxiety has gripped Nigerians as the threat issued by the organized labour to shut down the country economy over the new national minimum wage, gets closer. Vanguard sampled the views of some people in Imo State yesterday, and a majority of the respondents expressed fears that “the downtrodden will particularly,
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NIGERIA’s fragile economy will face further pressures from the maritime sector with the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, directing its members to withdraw their services in the commencement of a nationwide industrial action from today over unpaid wages to dockworkers, among other issues
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LAGOS— ORGANISED Labour, yesterday, issued a December 31 deadline to the Federal Government to send a draft bill on the new national minimum wage to the National Assembly for passage into law to avoid a nationwide strike in the new year.
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JOINT Health Sector Union, JOHESU, said weekend, that its members will embark on nationwide strike from April 18, 2018 in all federal medical institutions if the Federal Government fails to comply with salary adjustment structure agreement reached in September last year.
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Academic activities may be paralysed in tertiary institutions nationwide if federal government fails to address the short falls in personnel emoluments of academic staff union of universities in the country.
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