In the event that Simon Lalong, the Minister of Labor and Employment, attends their meeting with the Federal Government on Monday (today), the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to boycott.

It is anticipated that labor organizations and the federal government will reconvene to discuss the execution of the Memorandum of Understanding on subsidy removal palliatives that was signed.

Prior to the gathering, labor unions bemoaned the catastrophic effects of the foreign exchange crisis on the economy and called for an immediate stabilization of the naira.

 

In a statement released on Sunday, NLC President Joe Ajaero blamed government officials for the nation’s currency’s free fall.

 

The NLC president said in a statement titled “Urgent action to stabilise the naira amid alarming depreciation” that the consequences of the weakened currency would be felt by workers and the masses.

 

Hopefully, we may meet tomorrow (today) with the federal government to see whether the agreement with organised labour on the fuel subsidy removal palliatives was met or not.

 

“If that meeting is to be held, it will be without the Minister of Labour and Employment (Simon Lalong) because we will not be part of any meeting with the federal government that the Minister of Labour and Employment will attend.

 

“You will recall that the decision we had on the National Union of Road Transport Workers was that all parties, including the police, should leave the premises, pending the resolution of the dispute but that did not happen.

 

“Therefore, any meeting we will have with the federal government, the minister of labour and employment will not be part of it”, Ajaero stated.