 Okay, we're glad to be back here with you and knowing that you're there and watching us. We have NLC TUC as spoiling for a fight on the 3rd of October 2023. That is two days after the Independence Day celebration, so we'll celebrate that and then the very next day we have this strike. We have Comrade Ismael Adejumon, chairman of Ratau Lagos and P.R.O. of NLC Lagos joining us. Good morning and welcome to the program, Comrade. Good morning. I am Nyam Gul. Good. So NLC TUC is going on strike. I understand there's going to be a public holiday on Monday. It's the usual case. The Independence Day is 1st of October. The second is a public holiday or it should be a public holiday and on the 3rd the workers go on strike and the federal government is saying that the meeting, there should be a meeting on that Tuesday. I'd like to have your general comments on what is coming. Thank you very much. The Nigerian Liberals and the trade union today, the two Liberals entire Nigeria have already made a separate network of the two Liberals to dissect and mobilize the institutions of this currency. These are these. It's earlier made by the government to come up with a selection and other processes in the trade of the trade union. After the list of meetings and dialogues on the hand train for the people to come and nothing was to discuss. So it builds on the two to meet again and form a line and that was the first two days one is to be backed by only NLC when the TUC are not really complete that I think it's for to give government more time. After all, I've been done. Yes, we are still on the same. Government is still in Maruti, trying to deceive the Liberals. After a careful study of what the two Liberals have to come together and use you as a community that after the explanation of the one day automation given to you to kickstart the limitation, palliages and other question images, subsidy remover in the union, the labor center, Nigeria have to come up with a solution that is not on a given time. Starting from zero to zero around the end of October 2020 to drive home our demands. At this moment, none of the demands put in place have been addressed and it is very worrisome. The economic hardship, widespread hardship due to the cost of living, the situation by the remover of the subsidy has adequate cost to palliages. The toxic situation is not allowing Nigeria to breathe in. Therefore, we have to rise and take the ball rolling and show that the economy costs October 2020, inshallah, God willing. Except that the situation in each time frame that will break one into all these problems will be over. Thank you. Even at the time when it was a warning strike, I know that TUC did not participate but even NLC had to be forcing some people out of offices, especially in the southwest here where some of us are as well. It didn't really show that there was synergy. There was cooperation coming from states in the southwest, NLC in the southwest, that's what I mean. Are we sure that it is going to be one voice that NLC and TUC will speak on the 3rd of October? Because some states did not even join as much as they should join so we didn't really feel that NLC had gone on strike. Will that be the situation now or are there some things that needed to be addressed then that have been addressed now? Thank you very much. There is always a synergy between the two levels in Nigeria except with the peculiar situation that we were ran off in Jipa. On the issue of what is strike, the Nigeria Liberal Congress in Jipa with the hand of the TUC and that was the reason why we're not joining this strike. But I want to take a careful study of the stand of government. It has been that the NLC is demanding from it an agreement to agree with the NLC to aggressively mobilize all our athletes and get them ready. I'm not even concerned about the TUC. In that way, substantially complied. We thought it was the one strike, but it was this. That probably would go through. Because after the last count, when the NLC went to all affiliates of NLC and here is where we have. So on this coming strike, because of the TUC, we have been mobilizing and we are consulting a very workable implementation framework. I will bring about the success of the strike across the two levels. So that is the position of NLC for now. And there is no division whatsoever. I can assure you, it is an agreement. And because of the labor, we disagree to agree. We are negotiating with government. Agree on some terms and we agree on them. So our door is still very open. At the national level, as you have stated, the government is mindful of the consequence of granting the economic strike action. And I believe it has been quickly a proper time to make sure that there are three labor leaders who have heard this strike. Any issues of that? Any issues of that? Okay. I just want to know the stand of the labor unions, the TUC and NLC as regards the implementation of these demands that you are making. The other time, there was a time recently where labor was threatening a strike. They wanted to go on strike and then they had a meeting with the presidency. And they came out and told us that, okay, everything is well. They have been promised that they were going to do something about it. So they called up the strike. It was one of those times where we even had reports that one of the reasons they gave, I think they were talking about the fact that the president even told them that he too is going through hardship and is now staying in a two bedroom flat and everybody was laughing. But bottom line is that they had a meeting and they called up the strike and nobody even understood what was happening. Now we are here again because that strike didn't hold the believed. Now, what if on the 1st of October, the president makes some pronouncements regarding these demands that you are making. Are you going to call up the strike or you will still go ahead with the strike until the demands are actually implemented? Thank you very much. Always, at this moment, the labor movement in Nigeria has very stable and dynamic set of people. That's all organically. It's procedure so many factors before we take decision. Especially when it requires a large result, which is strike action. It is when the position fails. And that also does not work that we are back to strike. So this benefit of charge to the government based on the promises we have made and this has been an expectation time frame. There are a lot of promises from these who have been at least confused at this moment. Based on these other things from Nigeria. But after the table study of the observation of the situation without charging for that, it is likely on the part of the government implementing these policies based on the time frame. Workers are suffering. They are dying every day. The cost of living. At the reach of some of us, the working class. Therefore, we are very resilient and considerate of workers. To keep government the opportunity to be open and it's the case in this program. In the interest of all Nigerians. Even for the working class and the non-working class. Therefore, movement is the work of the working class. So based on these, that's why the strike for all of that time. But now, at the reach of job that is not important for the working class. To the effect of the promise. And we have to work on not only to lose our credibility and interest in the work of Nigerians. We have owed and we are starting to demand it to represent the future union. And the government is not like this. Therefore, the leadership has to be united with the work. I do not think what we are going to do is to go on the strike. And we have said this before. If the government call us, then we need to do that with generosity. And as far as the implementation of all these programs that we push to the level of this work. But then we have no option but to go. That is the thinking of global leadership. So, it is clear for the government to see how they will go about this. And we show that there is an amicable result. We don't want to embark on strike. That is the last reason of our binding strike. We have to report members to the leadership. That is why we have submitted our task command. That is why we have to go back on. All of our leaders. After the leaders, we have to do one thing. First of all, the promise and agreement. After the determination of the leadership, what you want us to do is go by the last week of this strike. The government believes that it is important for us not to go on this strike. We have to follow the dialogue with the leaders, and everyone is going to do what they want. So, definitely the president will say something about Labour. At least we are expecting him to say something about Labour. And say some things about the demands that you have made. Maybe the implementation of minimum wage, or the raising of salaries, and all that and all that. Do you have comfortable timelines that you are giving the government? Because if it comes, you can't say everything will be addressed that day. And you go back and say, OK, we are not doing the strike anymore. Do you have comfortable timelines that if the president accepts, you are going to call off the strike? For instance, if the president comes and says that, OK, in six months' time, I will begin to pay the new minimum wage. Will you be comfortable with that? Or you have your own timeline and you are saying, OK, within two weeks, if you are not able to do that, we will still go on strike. What are these timelines for NLC? Thank you very much. I would like to add that the implementation framework starts with the time frame. Very, very critical. Because how to, when the system was announced, we thought that by the end, and I do not discuss our way of situating the situation. At that point, in the ninth of May, we announced that the company is gone. So where we are, and that point was basically the consequence of the strike in the prime price of the week. I allocated the price of the week. I get my point down. The reason why the conscious of time frame is that the minimum wage to deal, starting freely, is due next year, which is 2024. What they will leave for, is the burden for palliators, people of palliators, and pay a watch between June to December this year. So pushing the effects, we will continue to move back. I get my point down. Among other demands, we have to make a promise that by December, the potential revenue will come upstream. It will reduce the pressure on the price of petroleum. And we also hope that the company regularly has promised us, we will also come upstream. The demand for our food, and importantly, we will put the pressure on the price of, on the dollar, on the exchange rate, will reduce, because we will be able to produce locally and use our currency. You know what the label, there's also the short term, the medium term, and the one term is the recovery term, which the governments have a hope of pulling the cost off the state. That is a, that is a, it's not for me to inflate. But we are not working according to the time by the labor leader. So people are suffering, they are demanded, they are educated, as long as workers are educated, very dangerous. At a point where they cannot survive, the minimum wage cannot take them away. It has been eroded by inflation. So most people now, can hardly go to business and to work. Where do we go from here? Where do we go from here? Can government do something fantastic before the minimum wage is due now? Is it due by nature? Okay, where do we go from here? Yeah, where do we go from here? Yeah, there's a final word if you are doing it, just wrap it up. Do you get my point now? Yeah, wrap it up with whatever you want to say now. I thought you wanted to say another thing, and I was saying you should wrap it up because the time has really gone. Yes, yes. That's a final word. Additionally, the wage contract benefit to be provided for wage workers without what they have to pay is to show political, economic environment in Nigeria is possible and there is no gain saying that the cutting cost of government is no longer an option but an imperative. So, based on this, government is no longer an option so it is again this that we want the government to agree not to the age of Nigerians but the working class and the new working class to do something urgently to address the situation if I am a well-injected person. Okay. That is what we are feeling. We are feeling and we are going to the economy. We know the economy has impacted the budget through a lot of budget and a lot of debt accumulated the economy wishes. If you move at the very soon if it happens to me it makes it very clear that I am conscious of our feeling. We wish Labour good luck. We wish you well. Labour should know that the people are fast-losing confidence in Labour because it seems as if you go there and they just talk to you and popular opinion is that people collect a lot of money and then they just jettison the strike or the demands that they have been making for the common man. So, you better know this also when you are doing it and we are wishing you luck that it will bring the desired results that you want for yourself. Whatever people feel but you have to know that this is how people feel because if you keep saying we are going to do this or not. We understand. We just wish you luck in this very one that you succeed. That is all I am saying. And we would like to thank you. We would like to thank you Comrade Ismail Adejumo for coming on the program and ensuring or boosting our confidence that Labour is going to do the right thing and we all are going to be better for it. Thank you so much for being a part of our program this morning. Thank you. Thank you. That was Comrade Ismail Adejumo, Chairman Ratao Lagos and also the PRO of NLC here in Lagos telling us that it is definite that the strike will happen and also that the doors are still open. There is an open window if between now and then the government can set acceptable timelines and the negotiation will be taken more seriously. They may just call off the strike. Whatever it is we want a better Nigeria and that's what we are praying for. We do not want a situation where it will always result in a strike. But if that is what is going to happen well, may Nigeria survive it and may Nigeria be better for it. That's the size of our package this morning and we are thanking you for being a part of it on behalf of the entire family of the Breakfast on PLOS TV. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji. Thanks for being there and up next is our news brief. Stay with us.