As it stands, the shareholder-oriented paradigm has demonstrated capability as an instrument for perpetrating wage theft therefore widening income equality. The unions must reinvent their strategies and demands; the era of bread and butter negotiation must give space to a more robust agitation on why workers must have a voice on the board. The assumed Iron Gate between labor and capital is no longer fashionable and workers must seize the ugly opportunity presented by COVID-19 to break the barrier and get seats on the boards.
Author: National Record
“Femi Falana since his student days has been in the fore front of the crusade for the emancipation of the Nigerian people. As a student, even before he became a lawyer, Femi Falana was in the habit of bailing fellow student union activists who got arrested by the State.”
Describing him as “a non-performing Minister of Power,” Comrade Ajaero, in the press statement titled; “Minister of Power Resign Now”, said the recent removal of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Gur Mohammed, will negatively affect the gains already made in the power sector in the country.
The aggrieved members in trying to convince the recipients of their petition that Comrade Oyelekan was actually out to violate the union’s statutes, sketched out portions of the union’s constitution they believe Comrade Oyelekan is breaching in his plot to get for himself a fourth tenure in office.
According to the governor, while the government has relaxed the curfew that has been in place to last between the hours of 8pm to 6am daily until further notice, schools are to remain closed for the next 14 days when a decision will be taken after reviewing the situation.
This year’s Eid prayers, which is traditionally held on open grounds and attended by thousands of Muslims in each community at the end of Ramadan fasting, is expected to be held either on Saturday or Sunday across Nigeria depending on the day the new moon is sighted.
“In most of the agencies in question, many staff are presently being owed transfer allowances for upward of 12 months. It is difficult to understand how an agency that has been unable to pay transfer allowances for a few staff can afford to relocate its whole headquarters comprising several offices and personnel without extra budgetary support.”
The chickens have now come home to roost! Now a micro-organism known as COVID-19 has becomes so omnipresent in every corner of the world and is so life-threatening that the rich class and the ruling cabals in Nigeria who neglected the public health institutions and healthcare personnel (doctors, pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technologists and auxiliary workers), underfunded, distrusted and despised the sector are now held hostage in the country by the coronavirus pandemic from junketing abroad on medical tourism.
The SGF said at Monday’s briefing of the PTF that President Buhari approved the immediate extension of the partial lockdown by another two weeks. President Buhari had on 27th April announced the gradual easing of lockdown in FCT, Lagos and Ogun states and imposed a nationwide night curfew beginning from 8pm to 6am from 4th May to 17th May (yesterday) as well as banning inter-state transit within the period.
Adeyemi said IPPIS officials “have refused to effect appropriate corrections of all the anomalies observed by NASU members in the Federal Universities and Inter-University Centres, Federal Polytechnics and Federal Colleges of Education up to this current moment, i.e. salaries paid to our members in February, March and April, 2020.