The Nigeria Labour Congress said it has concluded
arrangements to call workers in the country out on industrial action as
solidarity with workers of the Power holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, who it
said, were being unfairly treated by Ministry of Power over their stand that
the right things be done before the planned privatization of the PHCN by the
Federal Government.
It said it had set up strike mobilization committees across
the country preparatory to the planned strike which it said, would commence
immediately if there was deadlock in their meeting with the government on
Wednesday, next week.
The NLC which addressed the press through its Acting
President, Promise Adewumi and Acting General Secretary, Chris Uyot
respectively, on the impasse in negotiation between the workers of the Power
Holding Company of Nigeria, and the Federal Government, accused the former of
being insincere in settling the dispute.
The union said the Federal government reneged on its demand
that soldiers should be called off from the PHCN facilities as well as
immediate payment of July salary to all PHCN workers for genuine negotiation to
commence, saying it was not ready to accept any excuse from the government if
the next meeting billed for Wednesday does not address its demands immediately.
The labour also urged the Federal Government to create the
enabling environment for a meaningful dialogue just as it asked the government
to call the Minister of Power, Professor Barth Nnaji to order, saying the
minister has resorted to negative utterances against the workers.
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