Enough is enough, NLC tells Gov el-Rufai

Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade
Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, said their
members had been pushed to the wall by the
policies and actions of Governor Nasir El-Rufai
of Kaduna State, and warned, “Enough is
enough”.
The two bodies also directed Kaduna State
government workers to converge on the state
secretariat of the NLC for a “super congress”
where they said a decision would be taken on a
matter that borders on the interference of the
state government on union matters.The two
unions were reacting on the Verification Form
given given to workers with a clause on
whether they wanted to belong to unions or not.
The President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Waaba,
and his TUC counterpart, Comrade Shehu
Ayuba, addressed a joint press conference,
yesterday in Kaduna on the issue.
“The workers verification exercise carried out by
Kaduna State government was an aberration.
This is the first time such an exercise would be
carried out without a representative of workers.
We have also heard of many things he has been
doing here that are not in the interest of
workers. But, we cannot understand why he
now wants to interfere in the affairs of labour
unions”.“He tried breaking the ranks of workers
when he was the Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, FCT, but we resisted him and he failed.
One would have thought that he would have
learnt his lessons. Yet, this is a man I respect as
an intellectual.“For the governor to produce a
form and ask workers to indicate if they want to
belong to the NLC, is a clear interference on
union matters,” Wabba said.