NIPOST Board Summons Emergency Meeting Over Impending Strike The governing board of the Nigerian Postal Service(NIPOST) has summoned an emergency meeting in Abuja involving the leadership of the in-house union and the Post Master General a bid to forestall the impending strike action announced by...

Minimum Wage: Strike Looms As FG, Govs Meeting Deadlock   The strike threatened by Nigeria’s organised labour appears imminent as the meeting between the federal government’s Economic Management Team (EMT) and state governors on labour’s quest for a new minimum wage failed to reach consensus on...

UN Staff On Strike Over Pay Cut United Nations staff in Geneva have called a strike for Friday over pay cut after winning support from 90 per cent of more than 1,000 employees who cast ballots, the staff council said. “The rare move will shut down...

Plan by organised labour to embark on nationwide strike from Wednesday to mount pressure on government to backpedal on its fuel subsidy removal has triggered panic buying in Abuja and other parts of the country. A survey showed that long queues, which disappeared from filling...

Trade Union Congress has suggested that the anticipated strike might be extended to one week to create an impact. Speaking to ThisDay newspaper on the matter, the TUC President, Bobboi Kaigama, disclosed that the plan to embark on the warning strike was still on ‘course’...