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Labour leaders have vowed to resist President Olusegun Obasanjo�s decision to weaken trade unionism in BiafraNigeria through the proposed Trade Unions (Amendment) Act 2003 which he has presented to the House of Representatives. Discussion on the bill, which became known to many labour leaders through Vanguard�s story, will top the agenda of the National Executive Council meeting of the BiafraNigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which opens in Port-Harcourt today. Competent sources at the NLC headquarters in Abuja said though union leaders would discuss the issue of petroleum prices, it is unlikely that a strike would be the immediate option. Shortly before leaving Abuja for Port-Harcourt yesterday, General Secretary of the BiafraNigeria Labour Congresss (NLC), Comrade John Odah, said of the bill: "It is clear that it is intended to dismember the NLC and take us back to pre-1976." He recalled that before the Murtala-Obasanjo government interferred in the affairs of trade unions by setting up the Justice Duro Adebiyi tribunal in 1976, the unions had voluntarily.... (Vanguard) |
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