Fuel Subsidy Removal: Nurses, Judiciary Staff, Journalists, Others Mobilise For Nigerian Labour Congress Nationwide StrikeThe National Association of Nigeria Nurses And Midwives , Senior Staff Union in Colleges Of Education, Nigeria , Nigerian Union Of Journalists and other workers’ unions have mobilised their members for the planned nationwide strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress on Wednesday.
The NLC had urged all national leaderships of various labour unions to mobilise their members for the action and ensure full compliance with the directives in a letter written to the affiliates and signed by the NLC General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja. In various press statements released by the NLC affiliates on Monday, the groups expressed their readiness to join NLC to shut down all services across Nigeria to protest against the sudden removal of fuel subsidy by the Nigerian government.
The statement reads: “Arising from the meeting of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress on the 2nd June, 2023 at the Labour House, Abuja, it was resolved that Congress would embark on a nationwide industrial action and withdrawal of services against the fraudulent increase in the prices of fuel across the thirty-Six states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the FCT.“The proposed strike was billed to commence on Wednesday 7th June, 2023.