General strike in Nigeria
Unions, like most other civil society groups in Nigeria, are divided along ethnic, geographic, and religious lines. Plus unions are divided by occupational cleavages. However, when it comes to demands to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade of growing inflation, workers seem to be uniting. Will they shut the country down?Nigerian Workers Strike After Govt Talks Fail
The All Africa page has links to five news stories about the possibility of a strike.
Then there was the delay: Strike - Govt Gets Three Weeks' Respite
The three day warning strike started by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) was suspended yesterday after the unions secured an "undertaking" from President Goodluck Jonathan that a new minimum wage bill would be forwarded to the National Assembly…
Chairman of the Joint Strike Committee of both labour unions Comrade Promise Adewusi said the National Executive Council (NEC) of NLC and the Central Working Committee (CWC) of the TUC met at an emergency session and after due consideration resolved to suspend the three-day warning strike given the desired attention the issue has drawn from various organs of government...
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Labels: civil society, cleavages, economics, Nigeria
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