The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has declared one-day protest in Lagos State on Monday, September 25.
TUC president, Festus Osifo, disclosed this during a press conference in Lagos on Friday.
The demonstration is ahead of the strike to protest against what the Union described as “the Lagos State Government’s clampdown on the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN)”
The RTEAN is one of the affiliates of the TUC.
Politics Nigeria recalls that the Lagos Government had, in May, filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal in the state to challenge the judgment of the National Industrial Court which nullified the state government’s appointment of a caretaker committee on transportation.
The National Industrial Court in Lagos had on April 18, ordered the reinstatement of the operations of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria in Lagos State and nullified the state government’s appointment of a caretaker committee on transportation.
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