MWUN to follow suit Tuesday midnight
ZAINAB JUNAID
Despite National Industrial Court order on Friday, restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), Trade Union Congress(TUC) and their affiliates from embarking on the planned nationwide strike over Assault on Joe Ajaero, Unions have insisted going on with their scheduled plan slated for Tuesday midnight, November 14, 2023.
In a statement made available on Monday, by head of media for one of the Congress affiliates, Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria(MWUN), Comrade John Kennedy Ikemefuna, the strike is coming on the instructions of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held, Monday, November 13, 2023, directing all affiliates of the Congress to strictly comply.
The NLC and Trade Union Congress (TUC) took this decision after their joint meeting in Abuja, which was prompted by a series of infractions and encroachments of the rights of workers, and the distressing incidents involving the abduction and assault on the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero and other Unions’officials and the continued refusal of government to implement agreements, non-payment of backlog of salaries, pensions, discriminatory payment of salaries and non-compliance to national minimum wage.
In view of this, the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) will midnight, Tuesday 14, 2023, commence a nationwide strike.
”As an affiliate of the NLC, the MWUN is geared to commence the nationwide strike as directed by the NLC,” the statement added.
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