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Game of wits over strike
Sep 28, 2020
Last ditch effort to avert strike, as Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila (right), engages President, Trade Union Congress (TUC), Quadri Olaleye; President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba and others at the National Assembly, Abuja… yesterday. PHOTO: LUCY LADIDI ATEKO
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The success or otherwise of today’s strike action as planned by Nigerian workers, will depend largely on who finally wins the game of wits between the Organised Labour and the Federal Government, who took a last-minute decision to reconvene a reconciliation meeting with the workers for 7pm on Sunday (yesterday).
The labour movement had, at the weekend, embarked on massive street mobilisation to ensure success of the nationwide strike and protests against hike in pump price of PMS and electricity tariffs. The action is expected to kick off this morning.
Following Thursday’s deadlocked meeting with aggrieved workers, government had rescheduled a follow-up meeting for Monday (today), the same day the strike action was to begin, but quickly brought the parley forward to Sunday after Labour leaders had mobilised more than 20 affiliated unions for concerted national action.
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