By Peregba Jerry
Today’s meeting between the Federal Government and Labour to review the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed to prevent the October 3 planned strike, is threatened.
NLC President Joe Ajaero said yesterday that should Labour Minister Simon Lalong show up at the venue, his team would boycott the parley.
The meeting is at the behest of the Office of the Chief of Staff to President, Ajaero confirmed.
Ajaero, at a briefing in Abuja, said today’s meeting will review progress made by the Federal Government.
Last week, the NLC accused Lalong of plotting to thwart the agreement reached with the Federal Government.
Part of the agreement was the resolution of the crisis rocking the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).
The NLC accused the minister of siding with a faction of the NURTW leadership.
Ajaero said: “Hopefully we may meet tomorrow (today) with the Federal Government all things being equal on their report and template, whether all those issues have been met in the last 30 days.
“If that meeting holds, the minister of Labour will not be present in any meetings with us.
“Any meeting the Federal Government calls today with the Minister of Labour and Employment, that meeting will not hold.
“You have noticed of late that meetings are no longer called by the Minister of Labour because he is not in control.
“Therefore, to depend on him for resolutions on issues about Labour is to waste our time.
“For tomorrow’s (today’s) meeting, the invitation we got was from the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President (Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila) and that is where previous meetings have been held.
“The Minister of Labour has no place in the current industrial relations.”
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