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ASUU strike: NLC to stage nationwide solidarity protest

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it will embark on a nationwide protest on July 26 and 27 in solidarity with the trade unions in the Nigeria public universities and others.

The NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, said this in a circular jointly signed by Emmanuel Ugboaja, the general secretary of the congress, on Sunday in Abuja. 

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the circular which was issued on July 15, was addressed to the chairpersons and secretaries of the NLC state councils.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other trade unions in the education sector have been on strike for over five months over the alleged failure of the government to keep to the agreement entered with the unions.

The demands of the striking workers include issues bordering on universities’ funding, salaries and lecturers’ earned allowances.

Wabba said the action was in line with the decisions of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress on June 30.

Also, in a separate statement, Wabba faulted the federal government’s purported rejection of the Nimi-Briggs Committee report of the university-based union’s negotiations.

He said the alleged action was inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the ILO Convention Number 98 ratified by Nigeria and whose core principle is Negotiation in Good Faith.

Wabba pointed out that one of the cardinal principles of collective bargaining was the Principle of Negotiation in Good fate.

He noted that elements of the principle included conducting genuine and constructive negotiations.

He said Congress, therefore, demanded that the government should immediately conclude the ongoing negotiation and be prepared to commence the implementation of whatever agreement arising from it.(NAN)

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