Leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, on Monday, boycotted the meeting convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, with a view to averting the two-day warning strike already declared by the organised labour.
Only the leadership of the Trade Union Congress led by its President, Festus Osifo, turned up for the meeting scheduled for 3pm but started at exactly 5:32pm.
The meeting has gone into a closed-door session, with the minister appealing to the journalists to excuse the stakeholders to deliberate on critical issues.
On Friday, the NLC had declared that the workers across the country should embark on a two-day warning strike starting from Tuesday, September 5 over current hardship being experienced by Nigerians nationwide.
Lalong had at an earlier press briefing explained that he was yet to meet with the labour leaders before today because he was yet to get adequate brief from the relevant departments.
Lalong, while speaking at the briefing, specifically appealed to the leadership of both the TUC and the NLC to prevail on all its affiliate unions to shelve their scheduled two-day and planned total shutdown in 21 days’ time.