Hendrix Oliomogbe Ahead of tomorrow, May Ist Workers Day Celebration, the Edo State Caretaker Committee chairman of the Edo State chapter of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Prof. Monday Igbafen has lamented the division within the labour union in the state. In a statement in Benin City and made available to journalists, Prof. Igbafen insisted that the current labour environment in Edo cannot and must not inspire celebration. The unionist noted that the historic day was neither meant to celebrate the conquest of workers’ autonomy, nor mask the strangulation of independent trade unionism. He said that other state councils of the NLC across the federation may, perhaps, find reasons to roll out drums on May Day but not in Edo where the labour environment in the state cannot and must not inspire celebration. Prof. Igbafen, who is also the Benin Zonal chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) lamented that the Edo NLC is in a quagmire and locked in a strugg...
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