{"id":12954,"date":"2026-11-09T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/osun-nlc-orders-three-day-strike-over-withheld-lg-allocations-businessday-ng\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:16:20","slug":"osun-nlc-orders-three-day-strike-over-withheld-lg-allocations-businessday-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/osun-nlc-orders-three-day-strike-over-withheld-lg-allocations-businessday-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"Osun NLC orders three-day strike over withheld LG allocations &#8211; Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Osun State Council, has directed its affiliate unions to commence a three-day sympathy strike in support of Local Government workers over the continued withholding of statutory allocations to councils in the State.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a statement jointly signed by Christopher Arapasopo, State Chairperson of the NLC and Victor Amusan, Secretary, the Congress said the industrial action followed the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government and the Osun State Government by the labour movement to resolve the dispute over local government funds.\n<\/p>\n<p>They said the issues raised in the ultimatum remains unresolved despite the expiration of the deadline.\n<\/p>\n<p>The statement partly read, \u201cFollowing the expiration of the seven-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government and Osun State Government over the continued withholding of Local Government statutory allocations, the Congress regrets to inform all affiliate unions that the issues raised remain unresolved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, having exhausted all reasonable avenues and in accordance with the resolutions reached at the emergency meeting of the State Executive Council (SEC) held on Wednesday, 28th October, 2026, ALL AFFILIATE UNIONS OF THE NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS (NLC), OSUN STATE COUNCIL, ARE HEREBY DIRECTED TO PROCEED ON THE THREE-DAY SYMPATHY STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE NIGERIA UNION<br \/>OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES (NULGE), OSUN STATE COUNCIL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, all affiliate unions are directed to immediately communicate this directive in writing to their members and ensure total and full compliance across all workplaces.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny union found deliberately working against or undermining this directive shall face appropriate disciplinary measures in accordance with the provisions of the Congress. All unions are enjoined to demonstrate maximum solidarity, unity and commitment to the collective struggle for the protection of workers\u2019 rights and welfare.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must emphasise that an injury to one is an injury to all. The continued hardship confronting our comrades in NULGE is a collective concern of the entire labour movement, and our response must reflect our shared commitment to workers\u2019 rights, dignity, welfare and economic security.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"bday-read-also\">\n<h4>Related News<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bday-google-badges\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=businessday.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Osun-NLC-orders-three-day-strike-over-withheld-LG-allocations-Businessday-NG.jpg\" alt=\"Add BusinessDay as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKQgKIiNDQklTRkFnTWFoQUtEbUoxYzJsdVpYTnpaR0Y1TG01bktBQVAB?hl=en-NG&amp;gl=NG&amp;ceid=NG%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Osun-NLC-orders-three-day-strike-over-withheld-LG-allocations-Businessday-NG-1.jpg\" alt=\"Follow BusinessDay on Google News\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Businessday NG<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Osun State Council, has directed its affiliate unions to commence a three-day sympathy strike in support of Local Government workers over the continued withholding of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}