The National Industrial Court on Thursday restrained the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) from embarking on any strike on 28th September 2020 or any other subsequent date pending the hearing and determination of a motion on Notice.
Justice Ibrahim Galadima granted an order of interim injunction restraining the NLC and TUC, their officers, affiliates, and privies from embarking on any strike or stoppage of work in whatsoever form described on 28th September 2020.
It also granted an order of interim injunction restraining the Unions, their officers, affiliates, privies or howsoever described from disrupting, picketing or preventing the workers or its affiliates or ordinary Nigerians from accessing their offices to carry out their legitimate duties on the 28th September 2020 or any other subsequent date pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
The Incorported Trustees of Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association had through its counsel, Sunusi Musa, approached the National Industrial Court to stop the planned indefinite strike action and mass protest across the country by the NLC and TUC.
The NLC had handed down a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to reverse the price hike or face industrial action from Monday, 28th September 2020.
The TUC had also mobilized its affiliate members to participate in the proposed strike.
The NLC said the petrol price increase, whether perpetrated under the guise of ‘full deregulation’ or ‘removal of fuel subsidy,’ had eroded the gain of the recent increase in the national minimum wage as the new petrol price has induced a spiral wave of inflation in the price of goods and services, thus further deepening the misery of Nigerians.
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