NAIRA SCARCITY: Workers To Begin Nationwide Strike Next Week Wednesday – NLC
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Joe Ajaero, who is the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, has told public sector workers in the country to go on strike starting on Wednesday of the following week.
He also told the unions that make up the Nigeria Labour Congress to be ready for picketing at all of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, branches in the country.
The order came after the Central Working Committee of the NLC gave a deadline last week in which they criticized the Federal Government’s cash swap policy.
Ajaero said that the choice to picket CBN branches was necessary because neither the Federal Government nor the CBN has shown any willingness to fix the problem.
He said that the situation is getting worse, even though the Supreme Court said that the old N500 and N1000 notes could be used along with the new ones until December 31 of this year. He said that workers can’t get cash to pay for their way to work or to buy food for their families.
The top labor union, NLC, briefed reporters on Wednesday at its headquarters. It also said that problems with prices in the petroleum sector were also a cause for worry.
“Last week, we gave an ultimatum for the review of the cash crunch that is hurting the country. To our dismay, we have found that as of right now, not much has been done to improve the situation. The government is still dragging its feet on the issues we brought up.”
“Because of this, we met again this morning to talk about our stance and decided that all CBN branches will be picketed by next Wednesday.
“Workers are also told to stay home because people can’t eat and workers can’t go to work anymore. We’ve been pushed to the edge, so we’ve decided to take our fate into our own hands and have mobilized our workers for this,” Ajaero said.
