The case against privatization
Femi Aborisade
Privatization essentially refers to selling public bodies, public enterprises to private owners.
Economic and financial reasons are usually the formal reasons declared by governments for privatization. The current Government, for example, claims it will help to finance this year’s budget through proceeds from privatisation of some public assets which has been...
Pensioners plan nationwide protest for pension increment
Members of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners were planning to embark on a massive nationwide protest over the failure of the government to increase their pension.
Outgoing President of the NUP, Abel Afolayan, disclosed this in Abuja at the 11th quadrennial delegate conference of the union. He said his members would ground the Office...
Who Can’t Afford a Minimum wage of N30,000?
Some governors are claiming that their states cannot afford to pay the minimum wage of N30,000. So, for example, The Nation on Sunday, 18th April ran with the headline “States in panic mode as revenues tumble”. The problem is that this is just not true!
All states are now receiving massively higher incomes than...
SOCIALIST LABOUR EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING MEMBERS OF JUSUN AND PASAN
PRESS STATEMENT
Biodun Olamosu, National Secretary, Socialist Labour
Socialist Labour commits its full support and solidarity with the Judiciary and Parliamentary workers of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) and Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) during their current strike. We call on all our members and supporters to support...
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OPPRESSION OF WOMEN AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST CAPITALISM
BY BIODUN OLAMOSU
In dedication to International Women’s Day.
The question of women oppression in general and violence against women at work in particular has attracted debates for a long time before now across the world, but it seems to me that the problem...
COVID 19 PANDEMIC, THE WORLD OF WORK AND THE POLITICS OF CURTAILMENT.
BY JAYE GASKIA
NOTES FOR A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE 24TH PLENARY SESSION OF THE NGC OF AUPCTRE IN ENUGU: 10TH MARCH 2021
INTRODUCTION:
The COVID 19 Pandemic which was formally declared by the WHO in January 2020, has had and continue...
NLC/TUC Demonstrate They Can Still Organise Across the Country
The NLC and TUC were able to organise protests at the Houses of Assembly in most states. The protests in Lagos and Abuja were widely reported and had thousands attending.
Protestors in Ekiti State
In Ekiti, activities at the Ekiti State House of Assembly were shut...
Organised Labour To Resist Moves to Decentralise National Minimum Wage; Sets March 10th For Nationwide Protest
Organised labour in the country has set March 10, 2021 to carry out a nationwide protest over moves by the National Assembly to decentralise legislation on minimum wage from the exclusive to the concurrent list, which will ultimately pave the way for states to set their minimum wages.
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), disclosed this...
Solidarity For a Decent Minimum Wage for All!
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday, 17th February “directed all states where the national minimum wage of N30,000 is yet to be paid to immediately proceed on industrial action.” The NEC viewed “the refusal to pay the new national minimum wage by state governments… as an act of criminality, betrayal...