NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESSPRESS RELEASE2ND OF MAY, 2024 2024 NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE NEGOTIATION: HOW WE ARRIVED AT N615,000 It has become imperative at this point that we inform Nigerians who may not have known already the foundations upon which our initial demand for a N615,000 (Six Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Naira) new […]
Press Statement(18/03/2023) ARREST THIS DRIFT NOW We join our affiliate unions, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational (NASU) and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in demanding for the immediate payment of the withheld salaries of their members. There has been no credible reason or explanation for […]
Press Statement13/03/2024 Newly Elected Members of the National Executive of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria At the 11th quadrennial national delegates conference of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria held from the 4th to the 9th of March 2024 at the NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, the following […]
Press Statement(11/03/ 23) WE COMMEND THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COURT IN THE NURTW MATTER We at the Nigeria Labour Congress would like to commend the courage of the National Industrial Court for affirming the executive of Comrade Baruwa as the lawful leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. The judgment […]
The recent statements attributed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the commissioning of the Red-Line Railway Project have sparked deep concern within the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). We find these remarks, particularly those concerning the role of Labour in governance, to be profoundly at variance with the struggles faced by ordinary […]
COMMUNIQUE AT THE END OF A NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL(NEC) MEETING OF THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC) HELD ON TUESDAY, THE 27TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2024 The NEC of Congress in session on Friday 16th 2024, ordered a 2-Day Nationwide Protest to join Nigerians in demonstrating outrage over the massive suffering and […]
Press Statement(25/02/2024) AS THE STATE PREPARES TO UNLEASH VIOLENCE ON US We would want to inform Nigerians that the State has perfected plans to attack our peaceful rallies across the country. One of the groups being primed to attack our peaceful rallies is by a nebulous name, Nigeria Civil Society Forum […]
Press Statement21/02/2024 History Will Not Forgive Us If… We are concerned by the unsolicited advice of the Department of State Security to shelve our planned protest against the unprecedented high cost of living in spite of the indescribable suffering in the land, spiralling inflation, deepening poverty and the Naira at an […]