Nigeria Civil Service Union

The Nigeria Civil Service Union is a trade union representing workers in the Nigerian Civil Service.

The union was founded in 1978, when the government of Nigeria merged the following trade unions:


 * Nigerian Civil Service Union
 * Ministry of Defence Civil Employees' Union
 * East-Central State Messengers' and Allied Workers' Union
 * Government Coastal Agency Workers' Union
 * Eastern Nigeria Internal Revenue Staff Association
 * Eastern Government Stores Workers' Union
 * Co-operative Inspectors' Union of Eastern Nigeria
 * Eastern Nigeria Bailiffs' Union
 * Association of Federal Produce Officers of Nigeria
 * Union of Telephone Operators' Attendants ECS
 * Civil Service Technical Workers' Union
 * Civil Service Technical Workers' Union of Nigeria
 * Treasury Workers' Union of Eastern Nigeria
 * South-Eastern State Treasury Staff Association
 * North-Central State Civil Service Union
 * Northern States Civil Service Union
 * North-Eastern State Treasury Staff Union
 * Federal Statistics Northern States Workers' Union
 * Kano State Junior Civil Servants' Association
 * Nigerian Federal Office of Statistics Workers' Union
 * South-Eastern State Ministry of Education, Non-Teaching Staff and Allied Workers' Union
 * Union of Western Nigeria Co-operative Inspectors

The union was a founding affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress. By 1988, it had 205,397 members, but by 2005, this had fallen to 100,000. It has had a long-running demarcation dispute with the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria.