MWUN Begins Nation Wide Strike Over FG’s Refusal To Honour Agreement,Others
MWUN Begins Nation Wide Strike Over FG’s Refusal To Honour Agreement,Others
L-R President General, MWUN,and Vice president NLC,Dr prince Adewale Adeyanju fnli,President of NLC,Comrade Joe Ajaero
By Frank Odinukaeze
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) will midnight, Tuesday 14, 2023, commence a nationwide strike. The strike is coming on the instructions of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held, Monday, November 13, 2023, directing all affiliates of the Congress to strictly comply.
According to a statement on Monday,by the head of media of the Union, Comrade John Kennedy Ikemefuna,the NLC and Trade Union Congress (TUC) took this decision after their joint meeting in Abuja, which was prompted by a series of infractions and encroachments of the rights of workers, and the distressing incidents involving the abduction and assault on the NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero and other Unions’officials and the continued refusal of government to implement agreements, non-payment of backlog of salaries, pensions, descriminatory payment of salaries and non-compliance to national minimum wage.
The statement added that,”As an affiliate of the NLC, the MWUN is geared to commence the nationwide strike as directed by the NLC”.
