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Nigeria: May Day - Electricity Workers Boycott Rally.
- [ 02/05/2007
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The NUEE general secret-ary, Comrade Joe Ajaero, told our correspondents that the day is more for sober reflection than celebration.
According to him, about 35, 000 workers of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) have been laid off in the last one year while the government has not been able to provide stable power supply to Nigerians.
Meanwhile, Lagos state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has called on the state government to correct the imbalances in the recent upward review of wages of public workers in the state which excluded various government parastatals.
The state NLC council chairman, Michael Alogba Olukoya, made the call at Onikan stadium, venue of this year's May Day celebrations. saying that any increment in salary should benefit all the workers of government irrespective of agency or Ministries.
Olukoya stated that employers of labour should put a premium on the welfare of their employees which he said should also be in line with their wages.
According to him, "NLC wants to believe and consider this phenomenon as an oversight and therefore calls for urgent correction of these imbalances."
On excessive taxation of workers in the state, the NLC boss condemned the subjugation of the state workers to exorbitant taxation.
He said, "it is not only eroding, albeit, pokerfaced, the economic bane of the workers and their purchasing power, taxation is unleashing the principle of injustice and fostering state oppression on defenseless workers."
Olukoya further noted that taxation should be commensurate with income in adherence to equity, advising the state government to look into taxation as it affects individuals.
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