Festus Osifo, President of the Trade Union Congress, has confirmed that the Organised Labour has ceased its strike action. This was revealed by Osifo during an interview with Arise News on Thursday morning. He stated that the Labour leaders had previously met with President Bola Tinubu, who had made certain commitments to fix some of the issues that they had mentioned.
Earlier, Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, stated that labour leaders had agreed to wait for the Federation Government to fulfil the promises it had made to them.
He said, “It is pertinent to inform Nigerians that the extent of the success of the protest is underlined by the request of the President of the federal republic of Nigeria, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu to meet with the leadership of the NLC and TUC in a closed-door session.
“The engagement was fruitful that immense mileage was gotten with regards to the issues that bogged down the work of the Presidential Committee on Subsidy removal and necessitated the protest viz:
“He committed to an immediate restructuring of the framework for engagement in line with the input of the Labour leaders. He let out a certainty that the Port Harcourt Refinery will commence production by December this year. He pledged to ensure that Agreement is reached on the Wage Award for Nigerian workers immediately.
“He promised to unveil a workable roadmap to the CNG alternative next week. On the strength of the President’s pledge and commitment, we have decided to return to a new and reinvigorated dialogue process to allow for full implementation.
“Once again, we thank Nigerians while we wait for the government to fulfil its part of the understanding as agreed with His Excellency; the President.”
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