Strike: Wike’s no-work, no-pay threat illegal, unenforceable — NLC, NUT

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Council, and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, FCT Wing, person rejected Minister Nyesom Wike’s directive to enforce the no-work, no-pay argumentation against workers participating successful the ongoing strike.

The NLC FCT Chairman, Mr Knabayi Adalo, and the NUT FCT Wing Secretary, Mrs Margaret Jethro, condemned the directive successful abstracted circulars issued to members connected Sunday, describing it arsenic “unconstitutional, illegal, provocative and unenforceable”.

Wike had connected Friday directed country assembly chairmen to instrumentality the argumentation against striking workers. He besides instructed the FCT Head of Civil Service, schoolhouse principals and headteachers to unfastened regular attendance registers to show workers who failed to study for duty.

The directive followed an indefinite onslaught declared by the NLC connected October 7 implicit unresolved disputes betwixt the FCT Administration and the NUT.

Reacting, Adalo urged workers and teachers to stay committed to the strike, saying they should not to beryllium intimidated by threats of wage deductions oregon attendance monitoring.

He maintained that onslaught enactment was a morganatic labour close protected nether Nigerian instrumentality and planetary conventions.

“Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution, the Trade Unions Act, and ILO Conventions 87, 98 and 151, each ratified by Nigeria, warrant workers’ close to embark o...