MERCENERY LABOUR LEADERS NOW EYE POLITICAL OFFICES! WHAT GREED?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System from a godly perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 6. NO 195. 7th May, 2017.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

MERCENERY LABOUR LEADERS NOW EYE POLITICAL OFFICES! WHAT GREED?

It did not come as a surprise to many Nigerians when some leaders of a faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), during the last MAY DAY celebrations, expressed desire to metamorphose into a political party in view of the fact that since politics was a game of NUMBERS they could harness their numerical strength to advantage in order to CATER MORE for the basic necessities of life for their members as political gurus!  Are they really passionate about the NEEDS of the downtrodden and over-used Nigerian workers or deviously planning to cut a niche for themselves in the rosy political landscape and line their pockets with the financial largesse which accompanies Nigeria's lucrative capitalist presidential system of government?

In 1978, there was a merger of four different organizations which founded the NLC as an umbrella body for 42 restructured industrial unions with an initial membership population of 4 million, which has now grown to over 6 million, to "cater for workers specific and general interests in a more organized manner! Before Comrade Wahab Goodluck, who emerged as the first President of that new body, there was the immortalized "LABOUR LEADER NUMBER ONE", PA MICHAEL IMODU, of blessed memory, who championed the cause of Nigerian down-trodden workers without seeking neither paraphernalia of office nor aspired to become a politician which today has become the vogue and vocation among the present crop of labour leaders of the 21 Century! Worthy of note also were Comrades Abdulwahed Ibrahim Omar and Pascal Bafiyau, who followed Pa Imodu's footstep unlike Adams Oshiomole, who later veered into politics and spent 8 years in office as Governor of Edo State (2008-2016)!  Nobody was surprised that the ex- governor was rebuffed by workers at the Eagle Square, on May Day, 2017, when he tried to calm a mild protest against Federal Government officials because he already belonged to the ELITES CLUB of capitalist politicians!
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), has consistently advocated that labour agitations for improved workers conditions and enhanced living wages must always be predicated on mutual negotiations instead of confrontations, antagonisms or picketing with employers of labour in order to allow for a conflict resolution of "no victor, no vanquished", because when union leaders accused employers of deliberate exploitation of their workers, the later always accused their employees also of collecting free emoluments in spite regular lackadaisical attitude to work!
Nigerian workers have been maligned, sidelined and exploited by Governors of the various State Governments who owe them salary arrears of between 6 and 15 months up to May Day 2017, like Kogi State, which leads with 15 points on the medal table of unpaid N18.000.00 paltry stipends and  even expected MARCH PASTS by the workers on empty stomachs because the Labour negotiators reneged on the bond of COVENANT through delay of serious negotiations with State Governments for their own selfish pecuniary gains! During the disrupted 2017 May Day gathering at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the Federal Government delegation comprising of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senate President, and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives were barred from delivering official addresses including that of the President! Nigerians were also not surprised when in January 2017, some ambitious labour leaders announced the formation of a new Labour Union which emerged after a two-year internal crisis that split the NLC into two opposing factions following a disputed general elections in 2015. Out of the 42 Industrial Unions, of the NLC, no fewer than 25, elected Comrade Joe Ajaero who heads one of the splinter groups as President of the new United Labour Congress (ULC). As expected, the other group of the NLC, headed by Comrade Ayuba Wabba, described the emergence of the new labour party as a setback to the agitation for better conditions of service - especially on the issue of the new minimum wage being negotiated with the Federal Government.

WHICH NLC WOULD ENGAGE GOVERNMENT at the Tripartite Committee and through which medium or channel? The TWO NLCs in question exist on the pages of the newspapers, magazines and the internet and we make bold to say that they do not represent the interest of anybody except themselves; they are diametrically opposed to the Change Administration’s posture of good governance and therefore not the “voice of the oppressed” and must henceforth be rejected by the workers whose interests they no longer represent, with the following strategy: All affiliates which are made up of virtually all formal and informal trade unions, divisions/parastatals of government and the private sectors that are very numerous should engage legal action to suspend the compulsory monthly labour contributions which were normally deducted at source and deprive them the luxury of collecting illegal salaries and allowances for as long as they remained divided because they have completely reneged on their Mission Statement to organize, unionise, and educate all categories of Nigerian workers; defend and advance their political, economic, social and  cultural rights; emancipate and unite them and THE PEOPLE from all forms of exploitation and discriminations et ce tera! Factionalized NLC should be told the hard truth; as presently constituted, THEY ARE A LIE, A FRAUD AND A REPROACH TO THE NIGERIA SOCIETY!

The celebration of modern May Day has its antecedent in the organized LABOUR DAY of September 1, in the United States of America from the 1880s when the KNIGHTS OF LABOUR began annual parades through New York City and applied political pressure for its nation-wide recognition as a legal public holiday. In Europe, celebration of Labour Day on MAY 1, could be traced to 1889, when the first congress of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL met in Paris and urged workers to enforce an annual public holiday on first of May. It had since become a global event that has more prominence in the Communist calendar where Moscow semi-militant May Day parades are among the most-publicized and pageant-clustered annual event. It is instructive to juxtapose May Day celebrations with the thoughts of Karl Marx, a socialist cum communist radical ideologist who was passionately and vehemently opposed to CAPITALISM in all its ramifications - theory or practice! This revolutionist opined that though we dwell in a world which is dominated by minority capitalist governments and politicians who exploited the majority workforce, workers should not be classified as PARASITES in the unholy equation of. "master - servant relationship!" Capitalism is an economic, political and social system based on private ownership of property, business and industry, and directed towards making the greatest possible profits for successful organizations and people. A system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners at the EXPENSE OF THE WORKING CLASS! Nigeria runs a capitalist presidential system of government!

Karl also advocated that Labour Unions should always engage capitalist governments as catalysts to bridge the lopsided gap and rectify the anomaly of underpayment through collective bargaining with the capitalist political class and confront the penchant for FREE LABOUR from a labour force that should enjoy the advantage of numerical strength in all negotiations for better conditions of engagement! All global protagonists of equal pay for equal job in social democracies, were opposed to all forms of exploitation through capitalist ideologies of various governments and were never enticed by the ruling class to betray the trust of the workers through bribery with illicit, transient and carnal gains because elected labour officers were TESTED AND TRUSTED! Labour leaders in alliance with the middle social classes had fought for and won the democratic freedoms of the universal franchise, rights of free speech, association, assemblies and equal representation as enshrined in the constitutions of their respective countries and Nigerian labour leaders cannot afford to behave differently!

FAITHFUL LABOUR LEADERS ARE SOCIALIST-ORIENTED NOT CAPITALIST'S!
Because Nigerian labour leaders who now want to take advantage of the numerical strength of workers for political glory are mere HIRELINGS, - Wolves in Sheep's clothing’s, we recommend that workers of the two labour factions should close ranks and form the WORKERS UNION OF NIGERIA (WUN), immediately to represent them during the inauguration of the TRIPARTITE COMMITTEE of (Workers, Government and the Private Sector), to be set up by the Federal Government, for the implementation of the new National Minimum Wage for all workers in the country! We also advise that WUN should negotiate for a minimum wage of at least N 60.000.00 naira and multiple allowances which MUST include but not limited to, TRANSPORT, HOUSING, MEDICAL, ACCIDENT, HARDSHIP etc, because they deserve more compensations after all these years of deprivation of basic necessities of life! IT'S HIGH TIME NIGERIAN WORKERS TOOK THEIR DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS AND SHUT THE DOOR AGAINST PREDATOR LABOUR LEADERS!

All factionalized “officers” must be compelled to resign their posts and refund all salaries and allowances so far collected and hand over to the newly constituted WORKERS UNION OF NIGERIA (WUN) through the intervention of THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND PRODUCTIVITY in other to save Nigeria's WORKFORCE from the neo-colonialists labour leaders and complete the Change Circle of flushing out the SPOILERS! “Heal Nigeria, O LORD and she shall be healed; save her, and she shall be saved; for thou art her praise.” (Jeremiah.17:14).

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