It now appears the strike action proposed by members of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC would be the mother of all strikes as many other unions have all asked their members to comply with the stay at home directives by organized Labour.
This is as the National Union of Air Transport employees, NUATE, National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, and Association of Nigerian Aviation Workers, ANAP have all called for a total boycott of offices and work stations.
Other Unions that have asked their members to comply with the strike action are; New Academic Staff Union of Educational and other Institution Union, National Union of Printing Publishers and Parr products Workers, National Union of Civil Engineers, National Union of Electricity Employees, National Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE, National Union of Railway Workers, Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria.
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They all made this known in various statements and circular obtained by our correspondent between Friday and Sunday Monday morning.
The Organized Labour is embarking on total strike over the recent hike in electricity tariff and fuel price, especially following the breakdown of negotiation between them and the federal government delegation led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige.
If the strike action goes ahead as scheduled, it would be a total Blackout and all flights activities shut down as Aviation and Electricity Workers have also asked their members to down tools
It would be recalled that in recent days the price of fuel price, electricity tariff have skyrocketed and has led to untoward hardship on the citizenry, hence the strike action by the Labour unions.
Meanwhile, the Nigerian police force has warned the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC and other unions that it will enforce the law on the matter.
The Nigerian police spokesman, DCP Frank MBA, said, “What does the law say in this circumstance? We would enforce the law. That is the only thing I can say.”
The Organized Labour is bent on going on a nationwide strike despite two different court rulings restraining them from any strike action.
Justice Ibrahim Galadim of the Nigerian Industrial Court had on Thursday last week barred Labour through an interim injunction restraining the unions from disrupting, restraining, picketing or preventing the workers or ordinary Nigerians from accessing their offices or workplace.
24 hours later, Justice Ibrahim Galadim again issued an order restraining the Labour groups from going ahead with the strike, following an ex parte application by the Minister of Justice and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.
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