The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees (AUPCTRE) has decried the raging crisis with the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) management over its refusal to restore the deduction of staff check-off dues since January 2023.
A labour activist, Comrade Luka Daniyan, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said AUPCTRE is accusing ITF of backing another labour group, the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Companies (SSASCGOC), which has a judgment against it, in which ITF was not a party.
He said, “For months, AUPCTRE has been demanding the reinstatement of check-off dues deductions, yet ITF continues to ignore all correspondence sent to it.
“AUPCTRE then wrote to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) to intervene; they did by asking ITF to hand off on union membership. ITF ignored this. Thus, in October 2025, NLC threatened to picket the ITF office,” he said.
Daniyan added, “The Federal Ministry of Trade and Industry, the parent ministry of ITF, brokered a meeting where it was resolved to seek advice from their legal department.
“Suddenly, ITF, which is supporting SSASCGOC, went to court and sought a perpetual injunction against AUPCTRE, and this has compounded rather than solved the problem,” he lamented.
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