Workers' Day is a national public holiday that is being celebrated on 1 May of each year. It has its origins within the historical
struggles of workers and their trade unions internationally for solidarity
between working people in their struggles to win fair employment standards and
more importantly,
to establish a culture of human and worker rights and to
ensure that these are enshrined in international law and the national law of
those countries aligned to the International Labour Organisation.
The following countries have a public holiday named Workers'
Day: Angola, Bulgaria, China (where it is celebrated as International Labour
Day and as a 3 day holiday), Brazil, Cuba, France, Italy, Malta, Marshal
Islands, Mozambique, Namibia, Panama, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its history is
closely linked to the labour movement and the May Day celebrations celebrated
in other parts of the world.
Nigeria celebrates it as Labour Day, May 1st of
every year and workers gets a day off to rest, re-access and reactivate.
In this very vein, today, Nigerians are on the street protesting and asking for
the release of the 234 chibok girls kidnapped in Borno. The police are firing
tear gas and trying to disperse the crowd. Meanwhile, all of the girls have
been married off to the terrorist gang, shoved over the borders to Cameroon and
they are living in absolute fear of the unknown.
We hope the girls will be released soon or the military
speed up actions for the recovery of the girls.
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