The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it would embark on an industrial action in solidarity with affiliate unions in the universities and students.<\/p>\n
It said the industrial action which will be a nationwide three-day warning strike is aimed at pressing home the demands of its members and affiliate unions \u2014 chief of which is the Academic staff union of university (ASUU) and government imbroglio.<\/p>\n
The NLC\u2019s threat is contained in communique issued on Thursday at the end of the union\u2019s Central Working Committee meeting.<\/p>\n
In the communique jointly signed by its president, Ayuba Wabba, and general secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, the NLC also bemoaned the deepening security crisis that plagued the nation.<\/p>\n
The NLC had on April 13, given President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s regime 21 days to set up a panel to resolve the issues causing incessant strikes by the ASUU and others.<\/p>\n
According to the CWC, the NLC threatened to hold protests against the lingering ASUU strike within the subsisting 21-day ultimatum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is also occasioned by the government\u2019s failure to honour agreements reached with trade unions in our universities. If at the end of the national protest and the 21 days ultimatum, the federal government fails to resolve the industrial crises in Nigeria\u2019s universities, the congress would be left with no other option than to embark on three days nationwide warning strike,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is in solidarity with our affiliates in the universities and with Nigerian students, whose future and wellbeing are being jeopardised.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NLC added that the protest was to draw the attention of the government to the \u201cinherent catastrophe in the emerging culture of social apartheid in the society, by prolonged lockout from academics of students from poor homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also said affiliates of the NLC were to issue public statements condemning the intermittent strikes in Nigeria\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n
According to the union, the current ASUU strike is worrisome. It also described the current insecurity as \u201ctotally unacceptable,\u201d and called on the government to rein in the \u201cmonstrous cancer before it consumed the entire country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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