NLC, TUC Suspend Nationwide Protest Fixed For Today
The labour unions suspended the strike after a late-night meeting with a federal government team. The two major labour groups in Nigeria have suspended their planned nationwide protest scheduled to hold today. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) had scheduled September 28 for a nationwide rally to protest increases in the […]
NLC Insists On Strike
The organized labour comprising of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the United Labour Congress, ULC, have threatened to shut down the economy on January 23, if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to transmit to the National Assembly an executive bill for the enactment of N30, 000 as the new National […]
Los Angeles Teachers Set To Go On Massive Strike
Los Angeles teachers are set to strike on Monday, a plan that will impact about a half million students in the nation’s second-largest school district. The move, which follows 20 months of failed negotiations, will involve more than 30,000 teachers at 900 schools. The strike comes after a “red state teacher revolt” that rolled through […]
Federal Government, ASUU Reach Agreement
The Nigerian government has reached an agreement with striking university lecturers, raising the possibility of ending the teachers’ prolonged industrial action. The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Biodun Ogunyemi, said the National Executive Committee of the union will review its decisions based on the new commitment by the federal government. He […]
NLC Calls Off Strike As FG Agrees To Pay N30,000 Minimum Wage
Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress says a new minimum wage has been agreed. The organised labour unions have called off the planned nationwide industrial action initially scheduled to commence today to press home workers’ demand for a new national minimum wage. The National Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, announced […]
NLC Calls Off Strike
The organized labour on Sunday called off the strike action it declared last Wednesday after the expiration of 14-day ultimatum for government to reconvene the meeting of the tripartite national minimum wage committee. Addressing a press conference at Labour House, Abuja, Nigeria Labour Congress President, Ayuba Wabba said the strike was called off as a […]
Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority Arrests Nine Air Traffic Controllers On Strike
Nine Ethiopian air traffic controllers alleged to be leading a weeklong work boycott have been arrested. Police deputy commissioner Tekolla Ayfokiru is quoted by state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting saying the nine workers were preventing international flights from landing at the Bole International Airport, Ethiopia’s busiest hub. Air traffic controllers downed their tools on August 25 demanding […]
Air France Pilots, Stewards Embark On Strike, Demand Pay Rise
Half of Air France’s long-haul flights out of Paris were cancelled Thursday due to a strike over pay by pilots, cabin crew and ground staff. “No cash, no planes,” staff chanted as they marched noisily through Terminal 2 of Charles de Gaulle airport, wearing flourescent jackets and waving union flags. Riot police twice used tear […]
UNN Non-Academic Staff Threaten To Shut Down Water, Electricity Supply
JOINT Action Committee, JAC, of trade unions in University of Nigeria Nsukka, has threatened to shut down electricity and water supply in the university. JAC is made up of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Non-academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT. Mr Paul Arua, chairman of […]
NASU, SSANU Fault Funds Allocation
NormalL life and academic activities in Nigeria’s universities will be disrupted by workers’ industrial action from today.The three non-academic staff unions have declared a trade dispute over failure of government to keep to the terms of its own agreement with the workers. The industrial action is coming at a time teachers, under the aegis of […]
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