The attack on NLC President Joe Ajaero has prompted the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria to order its members to go on a statewide strike, which would begin at midnight on Tuesday, November 14.

 

All affiliated unions of the two labor centers, according to Organized Labor, have been instructed to carry out the decisions made by the joint National Executive Council of TUC and NLC.

In a Monday press conference, TUC President Festus Osifo declared that the strike will last until “governments at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”

Webteam@ipledge2nigeria  recalls that political thugs smashed the vehicles of Labour leaders and other stakeholders, inflicting injuries on them and dispossessed them of handsets, money, ATM cards among other valuables from the as they gathered at the NLC State secretariat to begin a scheduled protest on November 1, over pending Labour issues.
The NLC President, other national leaders of NLC and their TUC, counterparts, were at the NLC state Secretariat in Owerri to protest among other grievances of backlog of unpaid salaries and allowances, Pensions, gratuities and non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage Act.

The attack, brutalization and battering of Ajaero and others have continued to elicit outrage and condemnation across the country and beyond.