NLC orders Rivers NUT to halt deductions from teachers’ salaries

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Rivers State Council, has directed the enactment of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to suspend further deductions from teachers’ salaries for the union’s End-Well Cooperative Scheme, pursuing absorption from immoderate teachers who said they were not funny successful the scheme.

The directive came arsenic immoderate teachers planned to protestation successful Port Harcourt on Friday, August 28, implicit deductions made from their June and August salaries for the scheme, with concerns that the deductions could proceed successful consequent months.

In a connection signed by the NLC State Chairperson, Alex Agwanwor, and State Secretary, Mathew Olabe, the Congress said it was alert of the interior issues betwixt the NUT enactment and immoderate of its members implicit the strategy but had decided to intervene due to the fact that of the planned protest.

The NLC said it was peculiarly acrophobic that the protestation was coming amid the ongoing Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, league successful Port Harcourt, which, according to the Congress, could springiness the enactment a governmental magnitude and represent the authorities successful a antagonistic light.

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