The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday threatened to shut the six banks that sacked their workers. The umbrella union gave the affected banks two weeks’ ultimatum to recall the sacked workers and allow unionisation. The action has pitched the organised labour against employers of labour, with the umbrella body of the employers, the Nigeria Employers Consultative Assembly, saying the government had no right to tell banks not to sack workers.
Organised labour also threatened to picket the banks, if they did not halt the mass sack of workers, accusing them of disallowing unionisation and reneging on the principles of collective bargaining.
NLC, in a letter to the management of the banks, which was signed by its Deputy General Secretary, Chris Uyot, said it would be forced to close the banks and their branches, if they failed to recall the affected workers.
