The organised labour has urged the Federal Government to
refrain from any plan to increase the price of electricity or petrol to avert
crisis in the economy.
Mr Babatunde Olatunji, President, National Union of
Chemical, Footwear Rubber Leather and Non-Metallic Product Employees
(NUCFRLANMPE), made the appeal at the 29th Annual Industrial Relations seminar
of the union in Ibadan on Monday, NAN reports.
According to Olatunji, any plan to increase electricity or
petrol will be a wrong step and the organized labour will do everything within
its capacity to resist it.
He said that currently, power supply in Nigeria stood at
4,000 megawatts for about 200 million population compared to South Africa with
58,000 megawatts and has 50 million population.
”Industrialisation cannot take place in the absence of
power. Inadequate infrastructure like bad road network is also a challenge.
”Government should ensure adequate power, security of lives
and properties as well as regulate multiple taxation and charges to allow
manufacturing companies survive, thus promote Gross Domestic Products in the
country,” he said.
The labour leader further said that the effect of socio-economic
crises and coronavirus pandemic on industrial relations was evident in high
number of job losses arising from factory closure.
He said that the management of some organisation in a bid to
maximise profit have made staff to work for more than eight hours without
overtime payment while many permanent employment are converted to casual.
Olatunji urged the management of affected organisations to
treat all workers with dignity and also respect the International Labour
Organisation’s law on workers right to join a union irrespective of their
status.
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