NLC Drags Nigeria Before ILC Over Alleged Anti- Labour Practices
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has tabled a petition at the ongoing International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland against the federal government and some states over alleged violations of trade union conventions.
It said that workers in Nigeria have continued to face persistent violations of the right to organise and that of Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98).
In an address presented by the NLC president Joe Ajaero, the labour movement alleged that trade union leaders are being threatened, assaulted, intimidated, arrested or victimized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities.
