The Trade Union Congress, TUC has threatened industrial action if the Federal Government fails to meet with the union before the final removal of subsidy on petrol in June.
The congress, in a resolution at the end of its National Executive Council, NEC meeting in Abuja, maintained that the Government must ensure that the conditions precedent put forward by the TUC on the deregulation of the downstream such as the revitalization of refineries, establishment of new ones, including modular refineries, effective policing of borders to stem the rate of petroleum products smuggling among others are implemented.
TUC President Quadri Olaleye, who spoke after the meeting, explained that the NEC-in-session directed the congress to take all necessary steps to ensure that these conditions are met before subsidy is removed.
He added that the NEC-in-session has also directed state councils and affiliates to commence mobilisation of members for industrial actions against subsidy removal without government fulfilling conditions.
Olaleye, while lamenting the economic situation and the rising cost of living in the country, emphasized that federal and state governments should put in place measures to ameliorate the suffering of the people through food security and infrastructural development.
