The Federal Government has again failed to convince the organized labour to call off their planned protests and strike over the increase in the prices of petrol and electricity.
Government officials led by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, ABUBAKAR MALAMI, entered into second round of meeting yesterday with labour leaders but failed to reach any agreement.
After the meeting, which lasted late into yesterday evening, the representatives of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress came out to insist that the strike and protests would go on as planned.
The NLC President, AYUBA WABBA, also played down the injunction issued by the National Industrial Court, saying that the union was not served and that those who obtained the order were not their employers.
Justice IBRAHIM GALADIMA of the National Industrial Court on Thursday, September 24, 2020, placed a stumbling block on the planned industrial action and mass protests being organized by the labour movement in Nigeria.
Justice GALADIMA granted an interim injunction stopping the NLC and the TUC from going ahead with their planned actions, and also stopped the labour unions from holding any protest until after the hearing of a motion filed by the Incorporated Trustees of Peace and Unity Ambassadors Association.
According to the court order, the NLC and TUC are also not allowed to disrupt operations at any office or establishment where workers are doing their normal duties.
The Court equally ordered the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the Department of State Services to provide security for the plaintiffs in the matter and other Nigerian workers performing their lawful duties.