“Tackling labour exploitation via collaboration”

…According to the ILO, the lack of protection for migrant workers undermines safety for everyone. At the national stakeholders’ workshop on strengthening interregional collaboration between trade unions in Nigeria and destination countries, experts stressed the need for developing countries to align with solutions…

NLC General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, said the collaboration with the ILO would be treated as an issue that concerns everybody. Noting that a worker is a worker, irrespective of his or her citizenship, he said the Congress is set to enter into more bilateral talks in tackling migration on the global scene…

Also, the Director of the ILO Office for Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Vanessa Phala, said the ILO was supporting the NLC in the workshop that focuses on strengthening inter-regional collaboration, as well as disseminating information with its affiliate members on the resource that was developed.

She said this was achieved with support from the ILO within the framework of the fairway programme. Phala, who was represented by the National Programme Co-ordinator at the (ILO), Austin Erameh, said the information guide, particularly, looks at providing returning migrant workers with access to user information, as well as direction on where they could get return and reintegration information…