The Federal Government’s decision to end the fuel subsidy has prompted the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to call for a return to the old situation.
The TUC President, Mr. Festus Osifo, addressed the media after the National Executive Council (NEC) of the congress had an emergency meeting on Friday in Abuja.
Osifo claims that the TUC is dissatisfied with the Federal Government’s unilateral decision to end the subsidies.
He said that the TUC expected the government to include organized labor.
“Having noted this, we wish to state that the NEC-in- session resolved that discussions with Federal Government should continue while demanding that the government should revert to the status quo ante.
“The status quo ante should be maintained while discussions continue as we had a meeting with the government on Wednesday.
“During that discussion, they gave us a list of all the things they would do and they also demanded to know our thinking and what we are putting up.
“We told them the lists of the things we want to put forward, we will not submit them now but put them forward to our organs, to discuss and seek a mandate from them of the things we can put forward,’ ‘he said.
According to Osifo, it is how the government reacts to TUC’s demands that will determine the union’s next line of action.
“We will wait till Sunday when we will meet with the representatives of the government.
“Once we are done with that meeting then the TUC is going to put its demands forward, it is how they react to those demands that will determine our next line of action, ”he said.