Greedy Governors creating hardship for workers – Wabba

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Greedy Governors creating hardship for workers – Wabba

The President of the Nigerian Labour congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, has said that greed by political office holders has continued to create hardship and exploitation of workers in the country.
Wabba said this at the International Trade Union Congress (ITUC-Africa) Regional Conference on “Advancing Decent Work in Global Supply Chain in Africa”, which began in Abuja on Monday.

The conference was organised by the NLC in collaboration with ITUC-Africa.

Wabba said that there was, therefore, an urgent need to end corporate greed at all levels of the nation’s governance system.

He also said the ills and inequalities of multinational enterprises had left scars on the people.

?”Comrades and friends, on the issue of fighting to halt and ultimately end corporate greed, we are all witnesses to the ills and iniquities of multinational enterprises.

“From 2007-08 when corporate greed and market rascality plunged the world into a financial and, later, harrowing economic crisis, working men and women, pensioners and communities suffered immense losses.

“ Till date, the miseries and hardship caused by their reckless and greedy actions left have scars on people, households, communities and economies,” he said.

Wabba blamed politicians for “offensive concessions to businesses and providing them tax havens.

?“Shockingly, rather than side with their people, constituents and constituencies, politicians and governments have continued to make obscene and offensive concessions to businesses”, he added.

He said that the elites had been providing them tax havens to hide their criminal and corrupt wealth and loot.

“For the poor and other citizens, they have rewarded them with damning, hard and biting austerity measures,” Wabba said.

He said that this had resulted in stagnant living and working conditions with the poor getting poorer, whilst the rich, richer at the expense and damnation of the poor.

Wabba said that African trade unions have longed resolved to move away from lamentation and self-pity.

“We have warmly welcomed the initiative of the ITUC to aggressively drive this campaign aimed at halting and reversing corporate greed and their effects on workers, women, our communities and economies, ”he said.