National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees
Appearance
The National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) is a trade union representing workers in food processing and related industries in Nigeria.
History
[edit]The union was founded in 1978, when the government of Nigeria merged the country's many unions into industrial unions.[1]
The unions which merged into the NUFBTE were:[2]
- A. C. Christlieb Associated Companies Workers' Union
- Bacita Allied Sugar Factory Industrial Workers' Union of Nigeria
- Bisco Biscuit Workers' Union
- Cadbury Nigeria Limited African Workers' Union
- Dumex Workers' Union
- Flour Mills of Nigeria Workers' Union
- Food Specialities (Nigeria) Ltd. Workers' Union
- Golden Guinea and Allied Workers' Union
- Guinness Industries Workers' Union of Nigeria
- Karouni Workers' Union
- Lagos and District Bakery Workers' Union
- Lipton Workers' Union of Nigeria
- Narakat Biscuit African Workers' Union
- Niger Biscuit Company Limited and Associated Workers' Union
- Nigeria Canning Company Ltd. Workers' Union
- Nigeria Cocoa Processing and Allied Workers' Union
- Nigerian Breweries African Workers' Union
- Nigerian Sugar Industry Supervisors', Foremen and Allied Workers' Union
- Nigerian Tobacco General Workers' Union
- North Brewery Workers' Union
- Philip Morris (Nigeria) Ltd. Workers' Union
- Tate and Lyle Nigeria Limited Ilorin Factory Workers' Union
- Trebor (Nigeria) Ltd. Workers' Union
- West African Breweries and Associated Companies Workers' Union of Nigeria
- West African Distillers Ltd. African Workers' Union
It affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress. By 1988, it had 44,405 members, and this grew to 160,000 by 2005.[3]
Leadership
[edit]Presidents
[edit]- 1979: K. O. Lawrence[1]
- 1980: Stephen Olubayo Osidipe[1]
- 1991: Nansel Haruna Mamdam[1]
- 1995: John Onyenemere[1]
- 2008: Lateef Idowu Oyelekan[1]
General Secretaries
[edit]- 1978: Valentine Awah[1]
- 1979: Solomon Kunle Oyebanjo[1]
- 1996: Adebayo Kazeem[1]
- 2006: Isiaka Gbolagade Yussuf[1]
- 2009: Bamidele Stephen Busari[1]
- 2012: Lamidi Ayinla Danjuma[1]
- 2016: Thomas Terhemba Tyoban[1]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "About us". NUFBTE. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ^ "Restructuring of trade unions" (PDF). Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette. 8 February 1978. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ LeVan, A. Carl; Ukata, Patrick (2018). The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192526324.