Nigerian organized labor has urged President Bola Tinubu to lift the emergency imposed in Rivers State.
During the May Day celebration in Eagle Square, Abuja, Comrades Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, Presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, respectively, made the appeal.
For the benefit of the country, the Labour leaders called on the federal and state governments to stop taking measures that weaken civic space and to strengthen it.
They called for an end to the repression of dissent, transparent governance, and electoral changes in order to achieve their demands for democratic accountability.
Assuring the safety of residents’ lives and property as the government’s top priority, the Congress urged the government to put an end to what it describes as genocidal killings and bloodletting across.
In order for Nigerian workers to participate in the development of the tax proposals before the National Assembly, organized labor has demanded that they be removed.
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Organized labor claims that the tax measures, which were created without the NLC’s or TUC’s input, burden workers while absolving corporations and the wealthy.
The labor unions urged that the telecommunications rate be immediately reduced from fifty percent to thirty-five percent.
In addition, organized labor has called for an instant pay raise that reflects the nation’s current economic situation.
Labour also requests that all unpaid allowances, pensions, and gratuities be paid immediately nationwide, that gratuity payments be reinstated, that the retirement age be raised, and that pensions be automatically adjusted to account for inflationary trends.
