Industrial Court Issues Fresh Order Stopping NLC, TUC’s Strike
The National Industrial Court has issued a fresh order stopping the planned indefinite strike and mass protests nationwide by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and their affiliates.
Justice Ibrahim Galadima of the National Industrial Court issued the order on Friday following an ex parte application by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation.
The order restrained the NLC and TUC from embarking on the nationwide strike from Monday, September 28, 2020.
Justice Galadima had also on Thursday issued the same restraining ex parte order for Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association.
He 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 NLC had handed down a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to reverse the price hike or face industrial action from next week Monday.
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 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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