BY Victor Ahiuma-Young, reporting from Geneva, Switzerland GENEVA –
ORGANISED Labour, Thursday, vowed to cripple operations in the banking
sector over ongoing mass retrenchment of workers, throwing its weight
behind the threat by the Federal Government through the Minister of
Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, to withdraw the licenses of
banks that breached its directive to halt further retrenchment. This
came as Labour issued a 21 day ultimatum to the affected banks to recall
the sacked workers or risked unprecedented industrial action.
At
a joint briefing in Geneva, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,
and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, insisted that they would
picket banks that indulge in further mass sack of their employees,
saying that the Federal Government was right to have threatened erring
banks with withdrawal of their licenses if they refused to halt the gale
of mass retrenchment of workers.
Speaking at a a briefing at
the venue of the on-going 105th International Labour Conference, ILC, in
Geneva, Switzerland, both Labour centres contended that just like the
banks disobeyed the laws of the country and retrenched workers “we will
picket them to show them that they do not have monopoly of law of
disobedience.”
Both Ayuba Wabba and the TUC President, Bobboi
Kaigama, who frowned at the refusal of the banks to allow their workers
to unionized, said the pronouncement of the Minister of Labour and
Employment, Senator Chris Ngige was expected, arguing that it was not
the responsibility of the Senate Committee on Banking to invite the
Minister and others for a meeting since the issue fell within industrial
relations.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/mass-sack-nlc-tuc-vow-cripple-banking-sector/
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