Federal Government of Nigeria has set up a steering committee to consider the various demands presented by the organised labour centres to produce a workable framework in eight weeks, August 14.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Communications, Special Duties and Strategy, Dele Alake and Presidents of the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union of Nigeria, Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, respectively, disclosed this to reporters in separate briefings after a meeting at the State House, Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The meeting is the fourth in a series of negotiations between the FG and organised labour since the discontinuance of petroleum subsidy, as announced by President Bola Tinubu on May 29, 2023.
At the last meeting on June 5, 2023, the FG and the two labour centres agreed to continue talks and secure closure on the resolutions.
“The labour centres and the Federal Government to meet on June 19, 2023, to agree on an implementation framework,” the resolution read.
Alake said Monday’s engagement featured the creation of a steering committee to which several subcommittees would report on various aspects of the demands made by organised labour.
“We reconvened today. And then, both parties went through this list. And we ticked off the viable ones; those things are broken into three different categories; the immediate, those that are low-hanging fruit, then the medium term and the long term.
“So that’s what we decided today (Monday). And then other meetings will still be held to cross the t’s and dot the i’s. And then we adjourned again, and we are now meeting those groups that have been constituted at today’s meeting.
“So that’s what we decided today. And then other meetings will still be held to cross the t’s and dot the i’s. And then we adjourned again, and we are now meeting those groups that have been constituted at today’s meeting.
The NLC President, Ajaero, said, “This meeting is intentionally to give life to those agreements that were reached. We have set up committees in those key areas to commence work on them to make sure that we wrap up in the next eight weeks.”
