Analysis - Nigeria's major labor unions agreed to suspend a planned nationwide strike after talks with the government. DW looks at what led up to the planned action and how the situation could play out for workers and their unions.
Nigeria's major labor unions agreed to suspend a planned nationwide strike after talks with the government. DW looks at what led up to the planned action and how the situation could play out for workers and their unions.as part of his economic reforms -- but the measures sent fuel costs soaring and inflation is now at 25%, prompting the West African country's biggest labor unions to call for the indefinite strike.
Shemang explained that there is a high expectation among labor union leaders for the government to fulfil its promises to workers.Some analysts told DW that workers' concerns were justified since the cost of living has skyrocketed this year. "The simple fact is that government needed to have done all their homework before now. They needed to have done all the calculations. They needed to have [checked] what the economy is, [and] what the citizens are passing through, what the civil servants are passing through, what the ordinary man is passing through before [rolling out the reforms]," Uzochukwu said.
On Sunday, in a national broadcast marking 63 years of independence, Tinubu said that he is on course to turn things around.
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