President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime says it successfully averted over 4,000 impending strike actions by industrial unions across the country through dialogue in the last seven years.
“We have been very proactive in handling industrial disputes,” Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team on Tuesday in Abuja.
“We have conciliated about 4000 labour disputes, more than that figure; I think about 4300 or so since I came into that ministry, and you don’t hear about that.”
According to him, dialogue remains the best tool for settling labour disputes. This, he said, the ministry had done upon getting notice of an impending strike.
The minister said although some of the unions, especially in the oil and gas sector, were not big, the ministry was committed to taking necessary steps.
“The Ministry of Labour holistically conciliates, but we don’t make those ones public because an agreement…
