BREAKING: COURT ORDERS NLC, TUC NOT TO EMBARK ON STRIKE
The National Industrial Court has given an order of interim injunction restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) from embarking on strike action on September 28, 2020.
The court also granted an order to the unions, their officers, affiliates, privies from disrupting, restraining, picketing or preventing the workers or its affiliates or Nigerians from accessing their offices to carry out their official duties on September 28 or any other date.
The court, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Galadima gave the order on Thursday, September 24 sequel to an ex-parte application filed by the Incorported Trustees of Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association through their counsel, Sunusi Musa.
The court also ordered the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu and the Director General Department of State Services, Yusufu Magiji to protect workers from harassment, intimidation and bullying by the officers, agents or privies of the Unions pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.
Recall that the Unions had threatened to embark on the indefinite industrial strike action and a national protest from Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, if the Federal Government does not reverse the prices of electricity and petrol.
As part of the efforts to halt the strike action, an eight-hour meeting involving the Federal Government and the Unions was held on September 15, which ended in a deadlock.
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