Television
Continental, Lagos which is reportedly owned by a chieftain of the
ruling All Progressives Congress and former governor of Lagos State,
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently in the eye of the storm.
Labour leaders today (Saturday) described the sacking of 145
workers by Continental Broadcast Services Ltd as a national
embarrassment.
CBS is the owner of Television Continental and Radio Continental.
Labour leaders who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
condemned the mass lay-off. Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists,
Lagos State chapter, Mr. Deji Elumoye, said the sack was unnecessary and
embarrassing to the nation.
According to Elumoye, the sack is uncalled for especially at a time when media houses, including TVC, are under-staffed.
“In most media houses, journalists are overworked. One person
covers two to three beats and now they have been sacked. It is
unacceptable,” he said.
The NUJ chairman said CBS had the right to hire and fire, but
should have endeavoured to pay workers their entitlements before issuing
the sack letters.
He said the sack was a wrong way to celebrate the organisation’s 10th anniversary, which was made possible by the workers.
He said the organisation should have restructured the management
level such as the expatriates who are being paid in dollars, rather than
sacking 80 per cent of the journalists.
President, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Bobboi Kaigama,
also condemned the sack in its totality and said the organised labour
would look into it soon.
“The leaders of the NLC and TUC are in Geneva for the
International Labour Organisation conference. We will take action on it
when we return,” Kaigama said.
Also, TUC Secretary General, Mr. Musa Lawal, told NAN that the
number of workers sacked was unacceptable, because it would increase the
level of poverty already being suffered by the people.
Lawal said it was not proper for the private sector employer to
sack that number of workers at once over little economic shakeup, while
expatriates are retained and paid in hard currency.
He said the organised labour leaders would look into the issue when
they return from the ILO conference. However, the CBS management in a
statement said the sack was necessitated by the need to restructure the
organisation.
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