Bakers To Go On Strike!

Bakers Begin Strike On MONDAY
 
By Ayodele Lawal

Producers of bread will on Monday, 5 May go on a strike to protest the increase in the prices of baking materials, which include wheat, butter, sugar, etc.

The decision was taken at the meeting of a Joint Action Committee led by the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria and the Special Bread Bakery Owners Association of Nigeria.

Alhaji Lateef A. Oguntoyinbo, chairman of the committee, announced the impending strike.

P.M.News gathered that the meeting is still ongoing. Other members of the committee include Ola Balogun, Elder Bola Akinbola, Lateef Rufai, and others.

They said that they have set up a task force to monitor bakers who may want to defy the directive.

Prices of food stuffs, especially rice, have risen sharply in recent times, paving way for an imminent food crisis in most parts of the world.


SOURCE;; http://thepmnews.com/2008/05/02/bakers-go-on-strike-on-monday