Happy May Day, But Millions of Workers Are Unhappy Today
Caption: Street demonstration during Labor Day Photographer: Maillard, J. Country: San Francisco, US Date taken: 1987 Copyright: ILO Nigerian oil workers are on strike as we mark the May Day and they are not the only workers who are unhappy all over the world today. The Punch of Nigeria is asking if there is any hope for Nigerian workers? Yes, there is hope as long as the Nigerian workers join hands together to demand their rights to better wages, better working conditions and secure their future in the nation building of a New Nigeria for the common good of all Nigerians. Let us focus on the plight of the poor majority of wage earners who are being exploited and underpaid by their ruthless employers and contractors. If you are one of the employers of labour, please put yourself in the worn and torn shoes of your workers and ask yourself, if you have not been cheating and exploiting them? How would you feel if your were in their condition? Pay a visit to the homes of your office cl...