Workers Day: Aid Corps Urges Employers to Protect Workers Priorities

The Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, Mr  Yusuf  Yakub has urged employers nationwide to protect workers’ priorities and appreciate workers’ sacrifices for nation-building.

Mr Yakub made the call in his message to the International Workers’ Day.

He urged employers to demonstrate love to workers as a special appreciation for their continued efforts and commitment to ensure the world goes round.

The former federal lawmaker, who stated this in Abuja, admonished all to ensure that the sacrifice workers make by offering something tangible for their welfare and productivity.

In his message to the Workers’ Day Dr. Yusuf Yakubu explains “On the 1st of May every year, the entire world recognises the central role workers play in harnessing the productive capacities available to different workforces across endeavours , countries and peoples to ensure that the global economy is sustained and that the place of man as the centerpiece of global activities is preserved”.

“On the 1st of May every year, we choose to pulse for a day to honour those “whose hands fertilise the earth”, whose brains birth grand ideas that rule our world and whose efforts power the wheels of daily living and activities across countries, homes, professions and the like”.

“This year’s 1st of May is no different from the others gone by. It is however, another opportunity to celebrate our workers, to wish them well to show that we care and to give them a soothing pat on their back for the days they stay out when others are home, for the times they lose sleep when others are in bed and for the efforts they daily make to ensure that the machine of daily life and living does not grind to a sudden halt!

“Today offers us the rare opportunity to bring to the front burner issues concerning our workers, their welfare, and their general well-being. As we join other parts of the world to celebrate May Day as a nation, the celebration offers us the opportunity to, in all honesty, review issues concerning the Nigerian worker and appreciate the sacrifice and commitment he makes to national progress and development”. DG stated

“We must find a special way in all our little corners of the world to demonstrate appreciation in more tangible ways than mere words can merely convey to all those, including leaders who toil to make society better and to elongate the future of mankind and his environment”.

“Consequent upon the above, I urge our employers, leaders, factory owners and every Chief Executive Officer to elect a special way on the occasion of this year’s May Day, to demonstrate our appreciation to every worker under our care. Director General added 

The International Labour Day, observed every Ist of May each year, is a globally recognised day set aside by the United Nations in recognition of the roles workers play in society. Nigeria is a signatory to the International Labor Organization (ILO ) convention on labour matters.

Dominica Nwabufo