…..NLC Strategizes on Way Forward
According to a top labour leader, the Congress may push for total reversal to the pre-Tinubu administration’s pump price of petrol.
The dialogue between the federal government and organised labour over ways to cushion the impact of economic hardship imposed on workers by the removal of fuel subsidy appears to have hit a dead end.
THISDAY gathered that the labour leaders were not happy that the federal government failed to come up with any tangible proposal on palliatives despite the expiration of the August 19 deadline.
A reliable source within the leadership of the labour movement told THISDAY yesterday, that federal government seemed to have abandoned its negotiation with labour over palliatives.
It said following the inability of the federal government to sustain meaningful dialogue with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the two labour centres have decided to meet with their organs on the way forward.
To this end, the NLC has convened its National Executive Council Meeting Thursday evening, to decide on measures to take to compel government to review the fuel price.
A top labour leader confided in THISDAY that the Congress may push for total reversal to the pre-Tinubu administration’s pump price of petrol.
Before going for the NEC meeting on Thursday, the NLC held a symposium in Abuja, on the crisis of survival under the current economic situation in Nigeria.
