President, Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance, and other Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI), Comrade Oyinkan Olasanoye has promised to build cordial relationships between Nigerians and the labour centers in Nigeria if she emerged as the next President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC).
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She disclosed this during a press conference in Lagos while reacting to why Nigerians don’t trust labour centers on issues that border on workers and the government.
The outgoing ASSBIFI President who is also contesting for the position of TUC President explained that Nigerians don’t trust them because the labour centers don’t feed them back as the government always does.
Comrade Oyinkan if voted for in the next TUC Congress would be the second female President that would drive the affair of the labor center.
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She promised inclusiveness, work more on visibility and let the workers know the value of the labor centers.
Also, she promised to improve our relationship with the Nigerian media because it seems we are not relating well with the press on our efforts as labor centers for you to become policy marketers.
According to him, There are many issues between Nigerians and labor centers that they felt we are not performing up to the expectations. TUC threatens to join strike as ASUU, FG meeting deadlocked again
“One of the things Nigerians do not realize is that there are laws, norms, and terms that bind institutions under the law of their performance, coming on board as TUC President with me and you will have a proper understanding of situations and we will be able to do more by working on Nigerians trying to understand and you will realize that what the two labor centers have done today is to encourage more of us to go into politics not as players but as a determinant of our future in Nigeria”, Oyinkan added.
The labor leader stressed that as labor centers, they must do the right thing and follow due process.
“Nigerians do not have a clearer understanding of the roles we need to play. People don’t follow up after issues have been resolved, we don’t tell people what we have achieved at the end of the issue that has been resolved.
“People thought the labor disappoint them during the increase in fuel price and do you know that till today, Federal Government finds it difficult to increase fuel prices because labor centers are still holding them down.
“The labour also needs to adopt the same strategy being used by the government is talking to the media on issues”, She added.
