Organised Labour, on Friday, announced its decision to embark on an indefinite nationwide industrial action on Monday, 3 June over the failure of the Federal Government to conclude and pass into law a new national minimum wage Act, and its refusal to reverse the electricity tariff hike from N225/kwh to N65/kwh.
At a joint press conference held in Abuja, shortly after exiting the FG’s meeting on the negotiation of a new minimum wage, Presidents of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Festus Osifo, said Friday’s meeting with government representatives further demonstrated the unseriousness and apparent contempt with which the Nigerian state holds the demands of Nigerian workers and people.
They lamented the situation whereby no ‘big personality’ was present on the side of the government with the appropriate authority to commit to any outcome, saying that it was indicative that the government abandoned the meeting.
