Category: Trade Unions

May Day in Nigeria: Fanfare fails to mask workers’ anger By Peluola Adewale 2012 May Day – marching with SPN banner at Abuja rally – photo DSM Nigerian workers joined their counterparts globally to celebrate this year’s international workers’ day with merrymaking and fanfare in all the 36 state capitals and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, where the central rally

OYO STATE CAN PAY 18000 MINIMUM WAGE BUT: A MORE CORDINATED STRUGGLE OF OYO STATE WORKERS IS REQUIRED NOW! The Oyo State chapter of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) felicitates with the entire workers in Oyo State workers on the occasion of this year event of May Day. We especially commend the public sector workers for their resoluteness in the struggle

Workers Struggle in the past one year and the Tasks Ahead Kola Ibrahim For the past one year, the working people of Nigeria have had causes to engage the capitalist ruling class of different shades and disguises in fierce battles. These battles are against the attempt of the Nigerian governments and their big business partners to drive down the living

MINIMUM WAGE: OYO WORKERS RESUME STRUGGLE, REJECT ROTTEN OFFER FROM THE STATE GOVERNMENT By Abbey Trotsky Oyo State workers have gone back to the trenches in their struggle for implementation of the minimum wage. At a joint congress held on March 16, 2012, the workers overwhelmingly rejected the new salary scale released by the state government. The workers who belong

FUEL PRICE HIKE AS JAF KICK STARTS RESISTANCE, LABOUR SHOULD DECLARE TWO-DAYS OF MASS ACTIONS INCLUDING STRIKES AND MASS PROTESTS By DSM Reporters Although the Joint Action Front (JAF) had previously fixed January 3 for mass action to kick-start opposition to fuel subsidy removal in Lagos, the mass of Lagosians themselves showed their rejection of this latest anti-poor policy by

Zartech, Ibadan Re-instate Victimised Trade Unionist DSM Comrade Sacked by Zartech for Fighting for Workers Interests A Clarion call for Solidarity By Abbey Trotsky Kayode Wintola – photo DSM The management of Zartech, an agro-allied company in Ibadan, Oyo state, on Friday November 25, sacked comrade Kayode Wintola, a member of Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and the welfare officer of

Osun education struggles DSM Supports Osun Tertiary Institutions workers’ Strike Struggle must go beyond sit-at-home strike For a collective struggle for better education funding The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, hereby condemns the arrogance of the Osun State government to the current strike of the academic and non-academic staff at the four state-owned tertiary institutions. We call on

Workers of Rebecca Fashion Ltd Protest Poor Working Conditions 2-Day Strike Win Partial Concession Workers of Rebecca Fashion Ltd Protest Poor Working Conditions – photo DSM Workers of Rebecca Fashion Limited, a Chinese company that produces Noble brand of weave-on (hair weave), went on an indefinite strike on Thursday, October 27, 2011 to press demand for better pay and improved

DEREGULATION Labour must Begin Immediate Mobilization for Two-day General Strike and Mass protest By Peluola Adewale Despite the growing outcry, the Goodluck Jonathan government has pig-headedly resolved to intensify the neo-liberal capitalist attacks on the working people with the planned deregulation of petrol in the name of oil subsidy removal. Worse still, the government has sought to make the public

JOINT ACTION FRONT (JAF) HOLDS CONGRESS JAF members voting the new leadership – photo DSM Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 October 2011, saw the Joint Action Front (JAF), the civil society partner of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO), hold its second delegate congress. The JAF

AIRTEL and DANGOTE PASTA SUPPORT WORKERS IN STRUGGLE CDWR SUPPORTS NLC BACKING OF AIRTEL WORKERS’ STRUGGLE CALLS ON LABOUR TO SHOW THE SAME SOLIDARITY WITH 250 VICTIMISED WORKERS OF DANGOTE PASTA Dangote workers picket Food Union Secreteriat July 2011 – photo DSM – photo DSM The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) welcomes the intervention of the Nigeria Labour

Education Workers’ Strike: Government Must Honour Agreements By Adewale Stephen Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Right since 1978, under Obasanjo military junta, when the tuition and feeding fees were introduced and government got ensnared in crippling IMF/World Bank loans, the lot of education have gone from bad to worse. As a result of non-funding, all the Nigerian

NLC Anti-privatization Protest Protest again Highlights Labour’s Weak Resistance to Government Anti-poor Policies By Peluola Adewale NLC Anti-privatization Protest – photo DSM Protesting intensified attacks on the living conditions of Nigerians by Jonathan government, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) organized a rally on Thursday September 22 in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal capital. The protest march tagged

OYO STATE MINIMUM WAGE STRUGGLE: AN IMPRESSIVE DISPLAY OF WORKERS POWER! more coordinated mass actions could have won implementation of the N18000 minimum wage By Biodun Bamgboye Abbey Trotsky addressing striking workers in Ibadan, Oyo state – photo DSM It was in Oyo state that the struggle for the implementation of the N18,000 minimum recorded the first impressive display of

N18, 000 MINIMUM WAGE: WORKERS MUST TAKE THE STRUGGLE TO THE NEXT LEVEL DSM Osun State Chapter Workers must organise mass rallies, protest marches, pickets throughout the state. Strike committees must be set up in all the local governments N18, 000 minimum wage for all OYES volunteers with their right to join unions. The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State

DSM Osun State Chapter WORKERS’ DEMAND FOR N18, 000 MINIMUM WAGE: WORKERS MUST UNDERTAKE TOTAL STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL VICTORY The Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM), Osun State Chapter, commends the workers’ decision in Osun State to embark on strike to demand for their legitimate right to a meagre minimum wage of N18, 000, after the Osun State government had stubbornly and

Osun State Minimum wage struggle Workers determined, but leaders hesitate By Ayo and Raheem In a wonderful display of workers’ power, early August saw major government activities brought to halt in Osun State on the basis of an industrial action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress over implementation of the new N18,000.00 minimum wage. While the

Minimum Wage: Urgent Issues which Labour must Address to ensure Total Implementation By Peluola Adewale By 12 midnight on Wednesday July 20, 2011, when most workers and Nigerians had probably gone to bed, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) called off the three-day warning general strike they had planned to commence later in the day. This