May Day: Pursue Policies That’ll Better Your Lots, Atiku Urges Workers
By Abdulsalam Mahmud,
A leading presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alh. Atiku Abubakar, has tasked Nigerian workers to adopt a new approach to industrial relations and dispute resolution.
He called on them to strive in pursuing labour-friendly policies that will guarantee improved national productivity, better working conditions for workers, particularly low-income staff and casual workers who have suffered so much anguish and pains, in their daily working lives and living.
The Wazirin Adamawa, made the call in a message to felicitate Nigerian workers on the occasion of this year’s May Day, which is been commemorated today.
The presidential hopeful said he is feeling the unbearable pains and pang of hunger, hyperinflation, mass unemployment and insecurity challenges Nigerian workers, like other citizens, encounter in their daily lives.
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“I wish to let Nigerian workers know that I feel their pains and would do the utmost to better their lots if given an opportunity to lead the country,” he said.
Abubakar, expressed concerned that salaries have remained static, while food scarcity and inflation abound everywhere, even as children are out of school due to no fault of theirs, and farmers can no longer go to their farm for fear of bandits, just as there is no energy to power industries in the country.
While applauding the resilience and determination of Nigerian workers, despite the myriad of man-made challenges confronting them, he tasked workers in the country to keep hope alive and cultivate a new spirit of patriotism, geared towards nation-building and peace.
The former Nigerian Vice President, appealed to the federal and state governments to work harder to bring the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other striking labour unions back to the negotiation table in the interest of Nigerian youths and the educational system of the country, which is dying gradually due to incessant labour unrests.
