FOLLOWING the intervention of the Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, the striking members of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Edo State, yesterday, called off their strike and gave the state government till the end of January, 2014 to meet their demands.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubakar, protesting alleged recent tear-gassing and brutalisation in Port Harcourt of newly-recruited teachers in Rivers State who had gathered at the instance of the State’s Universal Basic Education Board to receive their letters of posting.

INDICATIONS have emerged that jamboree trips by the leadership of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and infighting within the National Administrative Council, NAC, are tearing the NLC apart.

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has commended the decision of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to mediate in the current face-off between the Federal Government and striking lecturers under ASUU.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to mobilise its members across the country against plan by the Senate to remove minimum wage from exclusive to concurrent list.

This is the concluding part of the article by Comrade Salihu Lukman, a former Assistant General Secretary with the Nigeria Labour Congress on the inclusion of the National Minimum Wage on the concurrent rather than the exclusive list as it is now. The first part was published on August 1, 2013.

LAGOS—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, Monday, blamed the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, for the industrial unrest that have crippled federal medical institutions, urging President Goodluck Jonathan to call him to order before doing incalculable harm to the health sector.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, is planning a massive assault on Diamond Bank Plc, over alleged sack of workers including officials of the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees, NUBIFIE, without due process as well as without paying their entitlements.

The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed against the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) by Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of Nigeria (AWUN).

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.