May Day : Prof Faduyile congratulates Nigerian workers.
– Steve Ovirih.
Renowned Professor of Pathology and Special Adviser to Ondo State Governor on Health, Prof. Dayo Faduyile, ( PDF) ,OON has felicitated Nigerian workers on the occasion of the International Labour Day celebration 2023.
Prof Faduyile in a statement made available to newsmen to felicitate Nigerian, nay Ondo State workforce , a copy of which was obtained by thepolity.net, described the workers as the bastion of the nation’s economic growth, saluting them for their noble contribution to the Gross Domestic Product ( GDP) in their respective work places.
The former President, Nigeria Medical Association ( NMA) said May Day is not only about the celebration as it also provides an avenue for the workers to come together to assess how far they have bounded together to support government growth policies and procedures as well as how well they can still go in their projection for a better Nigeria with an improved index ratio of a virile economic development plan.
While noting that government across board must continue to factor positively the interest of the workers into their policies, the Ondo South born All Progressives Congress, APC stakeholder saluted the Governor Akeredolu led administration in Ondo State for its workers’ welfare- prone policies and its support at all times for the two sister trade unions in Ondo State.
Faduyile noted that Gov. Akeredolu’s support for Labour in the state has engendered mutual relationship between the workers and government making possible a hitch free Labour/government cooperation and industrial harmony in Ondo State.
While noting that in Nigeria , the workforce has always has one reason or another to demand some negotiations with government, Prof .Faduyile charged the arrow heads of the different Labour leadership to imbibe the ethics of exhausting all the trails of negotiations before concluding on whether government will grandstand them or listen to their demands, adding that industrial disharmony is avoidable as long as processes of negotiation are always available between government and the unions.
Faduyile noted that no government that is worth such description will trifle with workers welfare, hence pleading that the unions should continue to sustain quite regular flow of labour to government negotiation to avert strike that has become quite too rampant among the various unions in Nigeria.
On the ultimatum of the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors, NARDS to Federal Government, the former NMA President charged the Resident Doctors to go beyond the issuing of ultimatum to further engage Federal Government on their demands , stressing that their demands for improved welfare is not out of place, however indicating the fact that there is need for a roundtable discourse to resolve all welfare matters between the government and the association.
