The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not negotiating with the Rivers government to end its nine-month old strike in the state university. Dr Felix Igwe, the Chairman of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) chapter of the union, said this on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of [...]
In Nigeria, Trade Unions are much criticized for inability to restrain the spate of exploitation of the ‘working people’. The criticism is, mainly, influenced by a presumption that the trade union movement is saddled with the historical role of the ‘labor movement’, and, so, must be roused to lead and coordinate the struggle for socio-economic [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) said it has decided to go on indefinite strike due to Governments failure to release the white paper on the visitations to Federal Polytechnics. The union’s President, Comrade Chibuzo Asomugha, statement in Abuja where he disclosed the Migration of the lower cadres on the CONTISS 15 salary scale [...]
The 2013 May Day is gone, but not without a new challenge for organized labour, at least being a charge from President Jonathan. The NLC President, Comrade Omar, in an address had lamented: “the crisis of underdevelopment which continues to engulf the nation is fuelled mainly by corruption’. And President Jonathan noted that though organized [...]
The initiative of the Community Service Scheme of Sure-P to generate temporary employment opportunities at community level on collaborative basis between the Federal Government and the host community to build the skills of uneducated/unskilled youths, women and the disabled in our societies towards individual and national transformation has been described by many as a solution [...]
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) is partnering with the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) to guarantee the success of the Employees’ Compensation Scheme (ECS). A statement signed by AGM Corporate Affairs of the NSITF, Aliu Zubairu said the association expressed its readiness to partner with fund at a [...]
Today is May Day. The day would be marked, in Nigeria, by the usual rallies with workers carrying placards depicting work-related challenges and labor leaders making speeches that are mere lamentations while responses, by government officials, are illusive promises – the net result: continuing dashed hopes for the already deprived. So, May Day will, again, [...]
Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, has disclosed that Federal Government is targeting over 370, 000 jobs through the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme (SURE-P) Community Service Scheme (CSS). The Minister who made this known during the first quarterly meeting with states coordinators of the schemes also warned them against politicising jobs opportunities, [...]
Without doubt, the ‘Iron Lady’, lost no love for trade unions, yet we miss and mourn her; and for me, for two reasons: her stern stand on issues she believed and the fact we, as humanity, is diminished by the exit of a great soul from this unfathomable universe. The world, indeed, mourns. Yes! Once [...]
Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) yesterday called on the National Assembly to urgently pass into law the Federal Polytechnics Act Review Bill, which has gone through Public Hearing at the House of Representatives. National President of ASUP, Comrade Chibuzo Asomugha, while reacting to the appointment of governing councils of Federal Polytechnics said it is [...]
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