You’ve failed workers, labour group flays NLC, TUC

The Federal Workers Forum (FWF), yesterday, lamented that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have allegedly failed the Nigerian workers.

In a communiqué issued at the end of an online meeting, the labour group also stated that the NLC and TUC “deserve a vote of no confidence.”

According to the communiqué signed by the FWF National Coordinator, Andrew Emelieze, it has always been a story of disappointment, adding: “The NLC and TUC have severally disappointed the Nigerian workers.”

“We, the federal workers, therefore, have evaluated the activities of the NLC and TUC. We have concluded that the NLC and TUC are deceiving the Nigerian workers. The current crop of leadership will not lead a struggle towards the emancipation of the working class. We will only be deceiving ourselves too if we don’t engage this ugly situation critically.

“It has always been a story of disappointment. The NLC and TUC have severely disappointed the Nigerian workers. The current hardship faced by workers nationwide has shown that the NLC, TUC and their affiliate unions have failed the Nigerian working class,” it said.

The labour group noted that there is no excuse to allow for this suffering and torture of the working class. The group complained that the current situation has proven that the NLC and TUC have been allegedly paying lip service to the plight of the suffering workers and the masses. It stressed that the two labour centres have been allegedly hypocritical, playing to the gallery and most times diverting the attention of workers with petty agitations.

It added: “Labour has been dysfunctional, even when President Bola Tinubu unilaterally removed subsidy on petrol, which, to most of us, is economic sabotage, labour was not able to find a rationale to mobilise workers to totally reject the petrol price increment from ₦187 to now over ₦1,200 per litre.”

This shows that labour has abandoned their responsibilities.

“For decades now, labour has not been able to win a living wage for workers. It has been passive while the government continually privatises the country, deliberately devalues our national currency and deconstructs our communal values.”