{"id":2333,"date":"2023-09-21T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:51:18","slug":"nigeria-braces-for-labor-unrest-as-nlcs-ultimatum-expires-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/21\/nigeria-braces-for-labor-unrest-as-nlcs-ultimatum-expires-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Braces for Labor Unrest as NLC&#8217;s Ultimatum Expires Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Uchendu Alexis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As 21-day ultimatum issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) approaches, tensions are rising across the country. The approaching prospect of a statewide strike has sent shockwaves through all sectors, from government offices to private firms, with all eyes on the conclusion of negotiations between the government and labor organizations.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite last Monday\u2019s parley being deadlocked as both parties failed to see eye-to-eye on the labour unions\u2019 demands over the removal of petrol subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there is any problem. We don\u2019t have any fears about some of the things they (labour) put on the table and also the suggestions and the package of the Federal Government,\u201d the Minister of Labour, Simon Lalong, told State House Correspondents after a private meeting with Vice President Kashim Shettima, at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Lalong has already met with organized labor in Abuja. However, both parties were unable to strike an agreement since the Nigerian Labour Congress insisted that the FG meet its requests before the September 1 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The union issued the 21-day ultimatum over the delay in sharing palliatives, threatening to declare an indefinite labor strike if its demands were not met.<\/p>\n<p>It stated that everything is in place for a comprehensive economic shutdown to begin on Friday, when the ultimatum expires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uchendu Alexis &nbsp; As 21-day ultimatum issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) approaches, tensions are rising across the country. The approaching prospect of a statewide strike has sent shockwaves through all sectors, from government offices to private firms, with all eyes on the conclusion of negotiations between the government and labor organizations. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}