From Rhoda Godwin, Yenagoa
Nigerian Labour congress, Bayelsa state council yesterday appealed to the State Government to fulfill promise of completing the labour house project which was initiated by the last administration.
The NLC Chairman Comrade John Bipre Ndiomu made the call in Yenagoa at the
Commencement of a two-week annual training programme, organized by its National leadership across the 36 states of the federation and FCT.
Ndiomu who spoke on the theme, “Building Capacity Through Education for a more Sustainable Workers Struggle, ” said the State Level School is designed to train workers in order to strengthen them and promote their involvement in Union activities.
According to him, it is also aimed at equipping workers with knowledge to tackle emerging challenges that require reinvention of strategies for conducting the business of industrial unions on aspect of management and resolution of disputes using the instrument of labour laws.
He appreciated the state government for being labour friendly. “We want to sincerely thank the State Government for being exceptionally labour
friendly; it is our prayers that the cordial relationship existing between the
organized labour and Government be sustained.
“We hereby call on Government to
continue to give priority to issues concerning the welfare of workers in the State.
“We also use this opportunity to appeal to the State Government to fulfill their
promise of completing the labour house project which was initiated by the last
administration.
“Finally, I want to use this opportunity to urge labour leaders at all levels to take
Labour movement issues beyond the welfare of civil servants but also take it as a all that has to do with lending knowledge and voices to ensure economic improvement in Bayelsa State.
“Also, we shall no longer be politically docile but all organize and take advantage of our teeming membership to determine political office holders in future elections in the State.”
His counterpart, Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, in Bayelsa, Julius Laye charged labour leaders to take labour movement issues beyond just the welfare of civil servants, but also see it as a call to lend their voices to improve the economic wellbeing of Bayelsa State.
