Labour Day: Workers Hold Rallies, Advocate For Better Welfare

It’s May Day, a day set aside to celebrate workers and highlight their struggles.

Also known as the International Workers Day, it came into effect in 1889 to beam the spotlight on workers’ struggle, a fallout of Haymarket affair in Chicago, U. S. A, where workers led a protest to insist on working for eight hours instead of the 12 hours a day, besides other welfare issues.

Here in Nigeria, led by the labour unions, workers are holding rallies across the country to mark the event and advocate for better welfare.

And following a pre-May day rally by the Nigeria Labour Congress, a major focus of this year’s celebration will centre around a call on Nigerian workers to get their PVCs and make their voices and votes count ahead of the 2023 general elections.