Fuel Subsidy Removal: Nurses, Judiciary Staff, Journalists, Others Mobilise For Nigerian Labour Congress Nationwide Strike
The National Affiliation of Nigeria Nurses And Midwives (NANNM), Senior Workers Union in Faculties Of Education, Nigeria (SSUCOEN), Nigerian Union Of Journalists and other workers’ unions have mobilised their participants for the planned nationwide strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC) on Wednesday.
This used to be considered by SahareReproters in copies of press statements released by these unions per a earlier letter written by NLC to all its 43 affiliate unions to mobilise for a scheduled industrial action scheduled to originate up on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
The NLC had informed all national leaderships of various labour unions to mobilise their participants for the action and construct sure elephantine compliance with the directives in a letter written to the chums and signed by the NLC Total Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja.
It famed that providers and products in each and every the final public and non-public sectors were anticipated to be fully withdrawn by Wednesday, following presumably the most sleek hikes within the pump prices of Top class Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol across the country due to the elimination of fuel subsidy.
In tons of press statements released by the NLC buddies on Monday, the groups expressed their readiness to hitch NLC to shut down all providers and products across Nigeria to narrate towards the sudden elimination of fuel subsidy by the Nigerian executive.
In a letter released by NANNM Deputy Total Secretary, Elder Otairu Daniel Shaibu, the strike used to be aimed to narrate towards spurious increment in fuel prices in Nigeria.
The statement reads: “Constructing from the meeting of the National Govt Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress on the 2nd June, 2023 at the Labour Condo, Abuja, it used to be resolved that Congress would embark on a nationwide industrial action and withdrawal of providers and products towards the spurious expand within the prices of fuel across the thirty-Six states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the FCT.
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“The proposed strike used to be billed to initiate on Wednesday seventh June, 2023. As a consequence, all Utter Councils of our Affiliation are by this look for directed to mobilize our participants in strict compliance with the directive of the National Management of the Nigeria Labour Congress.”
Other buddies who have also mobilised their participants for the strike consist of Judiciary Workers Union Of Nigeria, Maritime Workers’ Union Of Nigeria, Nigerian Local Govt Workers, Non-Tutorial Workers Union of Tutorial And Connected Institutions and the National Union of Civil Engineering Inform Furniture & Picket Workers (NUCECFWW).
