The Nigeria Labour Congress said it has concluded arrangements to
call workers in the country out on industrial action as solidarity with
workers of the Power holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, who it said, were
being unfairly treated by Ministry of Power over their stand that the
right things be done before the planned privatisation of the PHCN by the
Federal Government.
It said it had set up strike mobilisation committees across the
country preparatory to the planned strike which it said, would commence
immediately if there was deadlock in their meeting with the government
on Wednesday, next week.
The NLC which addressed the press Friday, in Abuja, through its
Acting President, Promise Adewumi and Acting General Secretary, Chris
Uyot respectively, on the impasse in negotiation between the workers of
the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, and the Federal Government,
accused the former of being insincere in settling the dispute.
The union said the Federal government reneged on its demand that
soldiers should be called off from the PHCN facilities as well as
immediate payment of July salary to all PHCN workers for genuine
negotiation to commence, saying it was not ready to accept any excuse
from the government if the next meeting billed for Wednesday does not
address its demands immediately.
The labour also urged the Federal Government to create the enabling
environment for a meaningful dialogue just as it asked the government to
call the Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji to order, saying the
minister has resorted to negative utterances against the workers.
‘’We call on the Federal Government to do the needful by creating the
enabling environment for a meaningful dialogue to resolving the issues
by calling the Minister of Power to order, withdrawing soldiers from
PHCN offices nationwide, and setting up a high powered committee to
sincerely address the legitimate concerns of the PHCN workers”, it said
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