Mass retrenchment: Read what will happen to banks soon
– The NLC and NUBIFIE have dismissed media reports that the planned picketing of affected banks has suspended
– The unions vow to use the banks to demonstrate the powers of the labour movement as the bastion of the people’s morality
– The unions say though some of the Banks have entered into discussions with them, they still go ahead with their planned action
A faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) led by Joe Ajaero and the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Intuitions Employees (NUBIFIE) have reiterated the resolve to picket banks involved in recent mass sack of workers any moment from now.
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According to Vanguard, the labour unions on Thursday, June 30, dismissed media reports that the planned picketing of affected banks suspended, insisting that soon the affected banks would feel the wrath of workers.
The labour unions position of the unions was made in reaction to media reports on Thursday that Ayuba Wabba-led NLC and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, met in Abuja, where it was agreed among others, that the planned picketing had been suspended.
But in a joint statement by the NLC faction and NUBIFIE, the unions vowed to use the banks to demonstrate the powers of the labour movement in as the bastion of the people’s morality.
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“We have not called off any proposed action against the banks, and until the conditions we had set out are met, which unfortunately is not the case though some of the Banks have entered into discussions with us, we will go ahead,” they said.
Meanwhile, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has decried the destruction of pipelines by militants in the Niger Delta region and said it has affected the payment of salaries.
Different militant groups have emerged in the region with the most notorious being the Niger Delta Avengers that has claimed responsibility for the destruction of oil and gas pipelines in the region.
Vanguard reports that the Delta state governor who spoke at Government Office Annex in Warri at a stakeholders’ meeting cautioned that salary of workers was at stake due to the drop in oil production caused by the militants.
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