The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has said it would embark on a nationwide strike from Aug. 14, if the contemptuous Court summons are not withdrawn by the initiator.
Joe Ajaero, NLC Pesident said this in communique jointly signed with Emmanuel Ugboaja, General Secretary of NLC on Thursday in Abuja.
The communique was issued at the end of the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the NLC.
It would be recalled that organised labour had embarked on a nation-wide mass protest over anti-poor policies of government, especially the removal of subsidy that had brought untold hardship to Nigerians.
The Federal Ministry of Justice had through the National Industrial Court, NICN, issued the leadership of organised labour summons on contempt of court for embarking on protest.
Mr Ajaero said that NEC observed the ministry of justice through the NICN had continued to allow itself to be used as a vehicle to truncate the dominance of the tenets of democracy and muzzle silence the voices of Nigerian workers.
“NEC-in-session resolved to go on total strike across the country any day labour leaders are summoned to Court by the government through the NICN.