Summary of Workers Strikes – December 2023

We need your assistance to ensure that this monthly report is comprehensive. Please submit details of any strikes in your state or community. All these strikes need our support and solidarity. We call on all trade union branches to send messages of support and to organise solidarity visits to any strikes in their localities.

The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) directed its members to work only two days a week from 19th July. COEASU is demanding a 200 percent increase in the salary of its members.

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, in Osun State, declared indefinite strike action from 23 November. This was over the seizure of wardrobe allowances, suspension of their colleagues, and the Chief Judge’s refusal to lift the embargo on worker’s training. The strike continued through Christmas.

Members of NARD Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH) chapter started a strike from December 1, 2023 over the refusal of the state to employ more doctors.