workplace and union

Bobboi Kaigama was recently re-elected as president of the Trade Union  Congress(TUC) by the deligates to the 10th Triennial National Deligates Cnference on Thursday 2nd June 2016 at the NAF Conference Centre and Suites Kado, Abuja. The 10th Triennial National Deligates Conference with the Theme; Labour and National Re-Orientation: The Change We Want had in attendance delegates from the 25 affiliate Unions of TUC and its Councils in the 36 States and Abuja.  Com. Ayuba Wabba the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of labour and Productivity, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Nigeria permanent representative to the United Nation and host of others were present at the opening ceremony as invited guests. In his keynote address Prof. Ibrahim Gaambari said labour is an indispensable partner in production and moreso we can not move forward except we embrace production and productivity and without labour other factors can not translate into production. He therefore appealed that government should not treat labour as organization they will result to when there is crises. He said one of the reasons why Singapore moved became developed is that the government had a compact agreement with Labour not to go on strike. He called for attitudinal change on the part of both the government and the governed as change would not happen unless all of us are part of the National re-orientation. This position of his...

“the working class and the quest for socio-economic revival” Workers all over Nigeria will troop out on Sunday May 1 as part of the international...

The National Association of Air Pilots and Engineers of Nigeria (NAAPEN) organised a warning strike which shut down Bristow helicopters operations in Lagos and...

Lecturers at the Kogi State University, Ayingba have withdrawn their services. The strike action which started mid-April is over non-payment of salaries. The KSU...

Resident doctors at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) took to the streets in the third week of April, as they embarked on a...

Upon the sack of 400 workers, and the continuous darkness that has plagued the country, youths and workers led by NUEE, FIWON, Citizens Access...

When Professor Tale Omole emerged as Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, five years ago, the trade unions on campus protested...

-Comrade Stephen A  Knabayi, NUT, FCT Chair The State Chairman of Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) FCT wing, Comrade Stephen A  Knabayi said there is...

The President of Medical and Health workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN),Comrade Biobelemoye Joy Josiah(JP), urged  delegates to the 8th Quadrennial State Delegates Conference FCT...

The National Executive Council (NEC) of Nigeria Union of Civil Service Secretarial and Stenographic Workers has called on the leadership of the Union as...

Comrade Abdullahu Adeka, the Nasarawa NLC State Council has described the condemnable sack of Ruqaiyyat Tijjani Usman, by the state government as foul play,...

The Trade Union Congress recently condemned the funding of infrastructure projects with workers’ contributory pensions. This was after some federal lawmakers and the minister...