The Leadership of the Nigeria Labour congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), Congress of Free Trade Unions (CFTU) and Labour Civil society Coalition have declared a 4-day sit-at-home warning strike/Civil disobedience from Monday October 11 – Thursday October 14, 2004 to protest the non-reversal of Petroleum products prices to their pre-September 23,2004 prices by the Federal Government and petroleum products marketers.

As the President of the NLC Mr. Adams Oshiomhole declared on behalf of the Labour Civil Society coalition (LASCO) while briefing the Press today (October 8, 2004); "This government’s action is wicked and anti-people, and Nigerian people are convinced to fight". He further made it clear that this approach of first warning strike and secondly, the non-violent sit-at-home Civil disobedience are based on lessons from our struggles in the past in the face of neo-fascist tendencies of the State.

The warning strike shall be the first phase of a staggered non-violent mass protest which the Nigerian people intend to use to struggle for the reversal of petroleum products prices. If after this first phase the Federal Government remains recalcitrant, the strike/Civil disobedience by the Labour movement and Civil Society shall resume after two weeks and shall be pursued till the people’s demands are met.