Workers Charge President-elect To Prioritise Socio-economic Justice
1 min readWorkers in maritime, finance, electricity, manufacturing and food sectors have charged the president-elect, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu to prioritise socio-economic justice.
This is even as the workers lamented the present level of misery, poverty and hopelessness across the country as Nigerian workers on Monday, joined their counterparts globally to mark International Workers’ Day, commonly known as May Day.
The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has described last year as terrible and excruciating for workers and other Nigerians.
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This happened as workers in the electricity, maritime, manufacturing and food union sectors, decried the present level of misery, poverty and hopelessness across the country.
On his part, the president -general, the Maritime Workers Union under the Comrade Adewale Adeyanju also used the workers day celebration to call on the incoming government to be very proactive of the workers plights in the country and ensure that most of lingering issues were resolved in no distant time so as to give the workers a new face of hope.
Similarly, the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) in his call titled: restoration, the union wants the new regime to improve on the working conditions Nigerian workers because they can no longer offer their labour to slave drivers whose only interest is profit maximization and capital mobility.