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Anti–labour bill: NLC writes Wabara, Masari The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has sent a letter to the leadership of the National Ass-embly, requesting audience to discuss its position on the controversial anti-labour bill through which President Olusegun Obasanjo seeks legislative amendments that among others, will proscribe the NLC and ban strikes. In separate letters addressed to the Senate Presid-ent, Adolphus Wabara and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari, the NLC president, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, described the Bill before the National Assembly, as unconstitutional and urged the lawmakers to organise public hearings in all the six geo-political zones of the country to ensure that Nigerians have a say in determining the future of the NLC. In the letter, the NLC berated all the arguments advan-ced by President Obasanjo for the proscription of the union, pointing out that the motive of the Bill was to deny the NLC the right to exist and to eliminate a source of constructive, people-driven and principled opposition to the bad policies of the federal government. “Credibility had been given to this view even by Mr President, who had made comments in the past, including a national broadcast on October 8, 2003, suggesting displeasure with the profile of the NLC and its predisposition to policy contestations,” the letter said. The labour persuasively enjoined the leadership of the National Assembly to set the Bill aside in respect for the constitution and national interest, adding that the thrust of the anti-labour Bill cannot stand the test of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), convention which has never complained over the operations of the NLC. The twelve page letter which extensively states the position of the NLC on the anti-labour Bill, explained that the attempt to ban strikes is an assault on the rights and interests of workers to a height that even the military had enough prudence to avoid.       TO NEXT NEWS PAGE...

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