The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the Joint Negotiating Council, JNC, met in Ondo State Wednesday to condemn the rise in the price of petroleum goods at the pump.
Following an emergency conference in Akure, workers unions raised concern over the government's insensitivity to Nigerians' predicament.
Leaders of the organized union issued a statement in which they joined "well-meaning Nigerians to condemn this wicked action of government, as it is absolutely beyond the reach of the majority of our people."
The communiqué, signed by the NLC Chairman, Victor Amoko; Secretary, Amos Sunday; TUC Chairman, Clement Fatuase; Secretary, Gideon Bakare; JNC Chairman, Ademola Adeniji; and Secretary, Adeleye Esther, reads: "We have resolved that the state government, as a matter of urgency, should roll out palliatives for the workers and masses of the state to ease the agonies inflicted as a result of the hike in price of PMS.
“All outstanding salaries and allowances owed to the workers of the state should be paid immediately.
“That any committee on palliatives set up by the state government, without the input of Ondo State Organized Labour, would be out rightly rejected.”