The Rivers State Chairman of United Labour Congress (ULC), Comrade Charles Eleto has said that the new Labour  Union in the state was to protest and preserve the welfare of Nigerian workers in the state.
He stated this, during his address at the inauguration of the state’s ULC chapter in Port Harcourt at the weekend.
Eleto, said that the union was also prepared to dismantle all problems and challenges that characterize low productivity.
The union leader, also informed that his leadership would control the issue of victimization, intimidation and other challenges that workers face in the country.
He further pointed out that the union would address challenges like outright sack, non payment of entitlements by greedy captains of labour.
According to him, both captains of Labour and oil Companies operating in the state are guilty of non commitment to worker’s welfare, saying that the end to such has come.
In his speech, the immediate paid factional NLC leader in the state, Comrade Adah Williams, tasked the Eleto-led government on the need for unity.
He was of the view that since unity was the strength of the union, it would be out of place to operate under any form of crisis.
Williams also cautioned against divide-and-rule syndrome, adding that all must be carried along in the interest of the union.
Also speaking, ex-Trade Union Congress (TUC) chairman in the state, who swore in the executives of the union, Comrade Chika Onuegbu, charged them on the importance of team work, saying that a house divided against itself cannot stand.