The Federal Government and the organised labour will meet on Monday, 30th October, to discuss the progress made so far in the 15 point Memorandum of Understanding that prevented a nationwide strike earlier this month.
President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero said the meeting was called by the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila.
He made it clear that the NLC would not attend any meeting with the Labour Minister, Simon Lalong in attendance.
Speaking with reporters, Ajaero said: “Hopefully we may meet tomorrow with the Federal Government all things being equal on their report and template whether all those issues have been met in the last 30 days if that meeting holds without the minister of Labour because he will not be present in any meetings with us.
“Any meeting the federal government calls today with the minister of Labour and employment that meeting will not hold.
“You have noticed of late that meetings are no longer called by the minister of Labour because he is not in control. Therefore to depend on him for resolutions on issues about Labour is to waste our time.
“For tomorrow’s meeting, the invitation we got was from the office of the chief of staff to the president and that is where previous meetings have been held.
“The current minister of Labour we have has no place in the current industrial relations we are having in Nigeria.
“On the issue of cng they have launched it. Maybe they are trying to fulfill a part of the agreement we had with them.
“Tomorrow we will hear from them and see how it goes.”
