The Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Wednesday, said it has resolved not to back out of the proposed indefinite strike by the organizer labour.
TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, have threatened to shut down the nation’s economy as from October 3 in protest of the hardship across the country
The organized labour is asking the government to put up measures that would ameliorate the hardship occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy.
The unions have had a series of meetings with the government but they ended in deadlock.
During an Arise TV interview on Wednesday, TUC President, Festus Osifo said the strike is the only option left, insisting that the organized labour had exhausted other means of pressing for its demands.
Osifo said enought time had been given to President Bola Tinubu to come up with palliatives that would cushion the effect of the subsidy removal.
He said, “Strike is always our last resort and that is why we embarked on this long journey. It was about four months ago that the fuel subsidy was removed.
“For any government that’s concerned about the plight of the people, four months is sufficient time for them to have designed a framework for the way forward.
“So for the House of Representatives that said we should be patient, we have earlier met with the Senate President who promised us that he was going to meet with the President and get back to us in one week but up till now, we have not heard from him.
“We have exhausted all the tools we have and that is why we are deploring the last option.”