Recession: NLC Bemoans Workers’ Fate

The Nigeria Labour
Congress has lamented that Nigerian workers are passing through hardship in view of the present economic situation in the country.
In a statement last Tuesday, the Secretary General of the Congress, Comrade Peter Ozo Eson said that it was unfortunate that workers are at the receiving end of the current economic recession and are thereby suffering the effects of what they did not cause in the first place.
Ozo Eson said that the organized labour was ready to ensure that no employer be it federal, state or private owes workers, stressing that the congress is currently pushing for the renegotiation of the existing minimum wage for the workers in view of the astronomical high prices of sundry items in the markets.
He said that organized Labour had submitted proposal but that government is yet to initiate the tripartite committee that will deliberate on the issue.
He stressed that the labour leadership must not keep mute as the new year approaches.
The NLC’s scribe said that the only way out of the present economic quagmire by the government is through a well remunerated workforce stressing that it is only when the workers are paid as at when due that the productive arm of the economy can get the boost to support the resuscitation of the depressed economy.
The congress secretary maintained that it was when the workers spend the salary earned that the manufacturing and other service sectors presently under the economic recession can get a respite, and urge the workers to remain calm.