Workers Strikes During November 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.

15th November – indefinite general strike by NLC and TUC suspended after two days. Federal Government through National Security Advisor apologies for the attack on the NLC President, Joe Ajaero and strike suspended as it was still being built late on the second day.

Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) started an indefinite national strike on 20th October, closing the Houses of Assembly in each state. This  action is over the failure of the states to implement legislative autonomy over the last two years since the three month strike by PASAN was suspended in June 2021. The strike was suspended from 20th November after an agreement with the Nigeria Governors Forum and the Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly.

The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Taraba State directed its members to suspend academic activities from 9th November till further notice over the killing of a teacher by some students.  The strike was suspended after two days as the union had secured the commitment of the state government to ensure that the student who killed the teacher would be apprehended.

Also, the primary school teachers, members of NUT in Taraba State, on 8th November held a one day prayer session and threatened to embark on indefinite strike over non-payment of their 18 months’ salary arrears and non-implementation of their promotions. In addition, union dues deducted from teachers’ salaries for over two years by the state Primary Education Board have not been remitted to the union’s account.  Some 16 teachers sacked by the former Governor had been re-instated and paid their arrears.