UCU: Nigeria Solidarity

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes
1. Nigeria’s cost of living crisis, to which workers and unions have responded
through strikes and peaceful protest.
2. Vicious repression of these protests with youth and union activists put on
trial, reportedly tortured, and threatened with the death penalty.
3. Cuts being made to Nigerian education funding, fee hikes in universities and
the introduction of student loans. Deteriorating conditions in higher
education.
Conference believes
a. International solidarity is a key component of UCU policy and a guiding
principle of trade unions. State brutality must be condemned by our
movement.
b. We stand in solidarity with the mass movement, and with all those facing
repression.
Congress calls on the NEC to
i. Write to the Nigerian president, police and judiciary demanding the
immediate release of, and dropping of all charges against, all trade unionists
and campaigners.
ii. Affiliate to the Nigeria Solidarity Campaign
iii. To promote this motion among the wider Labour movement.