The Senate presided over by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu
rose from an hour closed-door meeting on Wednesday announcing that its
Committee on Labour should dialogue with the federal
government and the
Comrade Ayuba Wabba faction of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, over
the strike called by labour to protest the recent hike in the pump price
of petrol to N145 per litre.
The Upper Chamber gave its Committee on Labour two weeks to turn in a report of its findings.
There are two factions in the Nigeria Labour Congress. While the Joe
Ajaero’s faction opted out of the strike, the faction led by Wabba
described yesterday’s Industrial Court ruling barring the NLC Strike as a
black market injunction, stressing that the union will go ahead with
its planned industrial action.
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