{"id":88659,"date":"2021-11-17T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88659"},"modified":"2021-11-17T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T06:24:55","slug":"fg-reads-riot-act-to-labour-says-no-room-for-hooligan-unionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fg-reads-riot-act-to-labour-says-no-room-for-hooligan-unionism\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Reads Riot Act To Labour, Says No Room For\u00a0 Hooligan-unionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m19821\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Federal Government has threatened that it will no longer condone what it described as \u201chooliganism in the disguise of trade unionism\u201d, warning labour unions that crossing the line with unlawful picketing would attract the full weight of the law.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nIt insisted that\u00a0 disruptive picketing which barricades entrances to workplaces, premises, locking up of offices, and preventing workers who wish to continue working from doing so, were a direct threat to public order, and hence illegal.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the\u00a0 Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the Federal Government would no longer fold its hands while what ought to be a peaceful agitation by unions crossed the boundary of lawfulness as stated in Section 43 of the Trade Unions Act. Cap.T14,LFN,2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government has watched as the offices of the Minister of State and the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Trade and Investment were locked for days by agitating workers unions, preventing other workers and officers of government from carrying out their lawful duties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, the Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre has been under lock and key since Monday, November 15, 2021, preventing the newly appointed Director General of the agency, Adesoji Eniade, from assuming office.<\/p>\n<p>We, therefore, wish to strongly warn that the president and commander-in-chief is the chief executive of the federation in line with Section 5 (1) of the constitution and is solely conferred with the powers of appointment into public offices such as permanent secretaries, director generals, however, designated, as clearly contained\u00a0 in section 171(d) of the 1999 Constitution. He\u00a0 does not share such power with any other person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clearly, therefore, ultra vires for public servants in the name of unionism to attempt to dictate to the president over the exercise of its constitutional powers on appointments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, the\u00a0 gale of irrational and unlawful picketing by the unions in the Ministry of Trade and Investment and that of the\u00a0 Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre run counter to sections 87 and 89 of the ILO Principles and the Trade Disputes Act, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor avoidance of any doubt, disruptive picketing which barricades entrances to workplaces, premises, locking up of offices, and preventing workers who wish to continue working,\u00a0 are direct threat to public order,\u00a0 and hence illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the Federal Government allowed the unions time to come to terms with the illegality they embarked upon and do the right thing, does not constitute\u00a0 license for further illegality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, state clearly here that the principle of non -interference in Article 3, C87 of the ILO Convention is that the employer interferes not in the affairs of the union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReciprocally, employees\/ workers are not to interfere in the business of their employers;\u00a0 on how they run their business\u00a0 which in this case is government. They, therefore, have no say in whom is appointed or deployed at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorkers in the Citizen and Leadership Centre have, therefore, been given the next 24 hours to open the officers they locked up, especially that of the newly director general of the agency, who is the new bonafide head of the centre, having been appointed by the president on October 3, 2021,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has threatened that it will no longer condone what it described as \u201chooliganism in the disguise of trade unionism\u201d, warning labour unions that crossing the line with&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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