The Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to resume its suspended strike over alleged breach of Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Kaduna State Government.
The NLC President, Mr Ayuba Wabba, spoke while addressing journalists at the end of an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the Congress in Abuja on Tuesday.
Wabba accused Governor Nasir El-Rufai of failing to respect the MoU brokered between the NLC and the state government in conjunction with the Federal Government.
He said the Congress, after exhausting all avenues, including writing letters to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had decided to resume strike.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the NLC had on May 17, embarked on a five-day warning strike over sack of workers in the public service by the Kaduna State Government.
NAN also reports that following an MoU which was signed between the parties on May 20, industrial action was suspended after three days.
According to Wabba, NLC has resolved to withdraw all services by its members.
”Mobilisation of all our state councils and all affiliates should take place immediately, and all employers of labour should be put on notice as required by our extant laws.
”We make bold to say that all falsehood and propaganda would be responded to appropriately because we thought that in a modern day democracy, our politicians should always speak the truth and they should not be used to falsify information.
”Particularly, citing of Decree 2, which has been abolished. Decree 2 is only known to the military era, and therefore, if El-Rufai wants to return to the era of militarization of our democracy, I think it is something that should be condemned. To say that the actions of workers and trade unions are regulated by laws, it is the Kaduna State Government that has violated the provision and san
ctity of our laws,” he said.
The NLC president insisted that strike was a legal means used globally by workers to press home their demands.
