National Collective Agreements
Collective agreement is a signed document containing the outcome of negotiation between the management or representative of Employers association and the Workers representative or the Union. This booklet documents the…
Campaigns on Labour and Industry
At independence, the textile sector contributed more than 50 percent of manufacturing sector contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Textile is Nigeria’s foremost manufacturing industry, using local raw materials (cotton)…
Nigeria: Unions welcome minimum wages
Unions are welcoming a new minimum wage of N30 000 ($83) recommended by the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage as an important step towards living wages in Nigeria.…
Long road to a new minimum wage
Tomorrow (Tuesday November 6) strike proposed by organized labour over the new minimum wage is still avoidable. But President Muhammadu Buhari must push his good leadership with respect to general…
REMARKS BY COMRADE ISSA AREMU mni, CWC/NEC MEMBER, NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC) AT THE NLCs MOBILIZATIONS AND SENSITIZATION RALLY IN ILORIN, KWARA STATE ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 30, 2018
GREETINGS On behalf of the National Executive Council (NEC) of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) I bring to you greetings from the leadership of the NLC. I salute the SAC and…
Reading the news: Minimum wage controversy
Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari, Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), hit the headline for the low last week when he said that governors “are not against the upward…