Fuel Price Hike: NLC Explains Why It Will Not Embark On Strike

In the heat of the recent increase in the pump price of Fuel, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has revealed that it will not be embarking on industrial action.

Stating the Union stand on the recent increase in the pump price of fuel, Joe Ajero the deputy president of NLC said that going on strike will be the last option of the union.

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According to Ajero, the union will exhaust all available options before considering industrial action.

Further explaining why the union will not be going on strike, Ajero who pointed out that the union is not a one-man show, the Union leader said that other sister unions needed to be contacted before the decision on the next line of action is taken. 

“The issue of whether we are going on strike immediately or not, I don’t think we operate that way in the labour movement. Our strike was suspended based on certain understandings and our understanding was still violated. That was why we raised that alarm yesterday (Sunday) which led to the walkout.

“We can’t come in here to announce a strike or the next strategies as if it was just a one-man organisation.

“Part of what we are doing in terms of engagement is to reach out and if every other means fail, strike is usually the last option by any union. We don’t just, at any slightest provocation start declaring strike. I think that is not what is on the table now but there are certain disagreements which we are trying to address.”

“Even the last agreement, there seems to be government’s interpretation of it; either the two parties, one of them seems not to understand the contents of the letters during the last agreement,” Ajero said.

Recall that AllNews had on Sunday reported that the labour union staged a walk-out on the Federal government team during a meeting held over the recent increase in the pump price of petrol.