The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria announced an ongoing strike, and organised labour has expressed satisfaction with the degree of worker cooperation.
According to OBASANJONEWS24, Comrade Tommy Okon, the Deputy President of TUC, led the monitoring team sent to the two labour centres in order to ensure compliance.
“We are very happy about the level of compliance so far,” he said. Even though a lot of employees received their union notices very late yesterday, I can assure you that there was a huge amount of compliance today, and tomorrow there will be 100% compliance.
In the United States, roughly 80% of people comply. There are only a few isolated cases of noncompliance in certain areas, but I promise that tomorrow will see a greater impact.
The expected compliance was hampered in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as several government offices received the directive from their unions relatively late, with some receiving it this morning. I have no doubt that by tomorrow, nobody will be working in offices.
“Note also that some employees who went to work today despite not receiving the notice earlier regret spending the money on transport and time to get to the offices, especially since we made sure that no work was done.”
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“There will be complete compliance by tomorrow. The information from our enforcement teams, who we dispatched to check and enforce compliance, is the basis for what I am saying.
A Federal Secretariat employee in Abuja stated, speaking anonymously, “Many employees followed the directive to go on strike. Although many employees of the Federal Secretariat did not show up for work, just a small number of them did.
“Tomorrow’s compliance might be more severe than it is today. Because a lot of today’s Secretariat employees resent paying for their commute. There is a very high likelihood that staff won’t show up tomorrow.
“No, there is no kind of directive or threat from the government to workers not to comply with the strike directive,” he responded when asked if there was a government directive asking them to disregard the strike.
