Thursday, 2 February 2017

Federal Government rejects “warning strikes” by labour unions



   AS the one-week warning strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, moves into its third day, the federal government has reminded labour unions that the nation’s laws do not recognize such strikes.

   Speaking to newsmen yesterday in Abuja , Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, warned that since the laws do not recognize such strikes, government may be forced to invoke the “no work no pay” rule.
   Ngige assured that  government was handling the issue of industrial relations the best way it could, saying that some of the labour unions such as the Nigeria Labour Congress ,NLC, and Trade Union Congress ,TUC, were cooperating with government while a technical committee was working on the issue of the minimum wage.

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