NLC Raises Alarm Over Anti-Labour, Workers Policies

The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, has raised an alarm over anti labour and workers policies by governments and private sectors across the country.
He called for synergy between the NLC and the International Lawyer Assisting Workers (ILAW) to arrest the ugly trend.
Wabba said this at the inauguration of ILAW in Nigeria through the support of Solidarity Centre in Abuja, yesterday .
The NLC President said that Nigeria workers and Trade Union had been at the receiving end of anti labour and workers policies for obvious reasons.
This according to Wabba, was in spite of the fact that workers remained the most important factor of production, adding that other factors and their collaborators were also coming up with anti labour policies.
He said that some of them are rearing their ugly heads; the issue of outsourcing of services and casualisation are new issues that are cropping into the industrial relation milieu.
He said that there was need to approach the issue in a more coordinated manner in order to forestall the ugly trend.
Wabba said that one of the strongest pillar of democracy were the civil society and organised labour, adding that once such institutions were weaken, then there would be no basis for democracy.