In response to the Federal Government's decision to end fuel subsidies, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has demanded a return to the previous situation.
The TUC President, Mr. Festus Osifo, addressed the media after the National Executive Council (NEC) of the congress had an emergency meeting on Friday in Abuja.
Osifo claims that the TUC is dissatisfied with the Federal Government's unilateral decision to end the subsidies.
He claimed that the TUC expected the government to include organized labor.
“Having noted this, we wish to state that the NEC-in- session resolved that discussions with the Federal Government should continue while demanding that the government revert to the status quo ante.
“The status quo ante should be maintained while discussions continue as we had a meeting with the government on Wednesday.
“During that discussion, they gave us a list of all the things they would do and they also demanded to know our thinking and what we are putting up.
“We told them the lists of the things we want to put forward, we will not submit them now but put them forward to our organs, to discuss and seek a mandate from them of the things we can put forward," he said.
Osifo asserts that the TUC's future course of action will depend on how the government responds to its demands.
“We will wait till Sunday when we will meet with the representatives of the government.
“Once we are done with that meeting then the TUC is going to put its demands forward, it is how they react to those demands that will determine our next line of action, â€he said.
In the meantime, the Nigeria Labour Congress had its NEC meeting and declared it would begin a statewide strike on June 7 if the issue of the elimination of gasoline subsidies and increase in petrol prices was not resolved.