The Light

The Federal Workers Forum (FWF) has appealed to the federal government to discontinue the treatment of workers as slaves.
This appeal was made by the FWF National Coordinator, Comrade Andrew Emelieze, in a chat with Solomon2day.
''We urge the federal government to stop treating workers like slaves; we are citizens. The new national minimum wage has led to the financial embarrassment of federal workers; our government must rethink her attitude towards the Nigerian workers. Most unfortunately, our government is still owing us five months wage award arrears earlier promised to cushion the effects of petrol subsidy removal, and labor is not doing anything; this is indeed very shameful.
The government is also owing poorly paid workers lots of arrears of various allowances. In the crucial sectors of health and education, the workers have continued to plead for their legitimate dues, all to no avail.''Federal workers also posit that the entire labor movement and the left have refused to call the NLC and the TUC to order. Thus, the labor movement is part of the compromise and the betrayal of the working class in Nigeria.
Federal workers also expressed their disappointment in the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Student Union Governments (SUG), the entire civil society groups, and activists for their passivity while Nigerians languish in horror. NAN is now a shadow of itself, and the Nigerian student's movement is now a reactionary movement.
Posterity will judge the NLC/TUC, the industrial unions, NANS, and the civil society for making it impossible for Nigerians to have a good life. Comrade Emelieze concluded.
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