The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has threatened to stay out of Monday’s meeting with the federal government on account of Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong.
The latter and NLC have a frosty relationship springing from the crisis rocking the National Union of Road Transport Workers which stemmed from leadership tussle with the former Plateau governor alleged of taking sides with a faction of the transporters’ union.
On Sunday at a press conference in Abuja, NLC President, Joe Ajaero said, the union would not sit in a meeting with Lalong.
“Hopefully, we may meet tomorrow (today) with the Federal Government to see whether the agreement with organised labour on the fuel subsidy removal palliatives was met or not.
“If that meeting is to be held, it will be without the Minister of Labour and Employment (Simon Lalong) because we will not be part of any meeting with the Federal Government that the Minister of Labour and Employment will attend.
“You will recall that the decision we had on the National Union of Road Transport Workers was that all parties including the police should leave the premises, pending the resolution of the dispute but that did not happen. Therefore, any meeting we will have with the Federal Government, the minister of labour and employment will not be part of it,” the labour leader said.
