In an effort to promote a new national minimum wage for workers, organised labour, in a strike action, withdrew its services today, despite earlier requests for consideration from the federal government.
Following several fruitless discussions at the tripartite committee meetings on the new minimum wage, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), and federal government representatives engaged in industrial action.
On Friday of last week, however, negotiations broke down because the government had earlier in the week given a N3,000 boost to the N57,000 offer it had previously made in order to come up with an N60,000 minimum wage proposal—a figure that Labour officials had judged insufficient.
The labour unions want to put pressure on the government to raise the minimum wage, which is why they are going on strike today. According to both chambers, N494,000 is sufficient to represent the current rising cost of living.
Numerous affiliates have concluded their mobilisation for today’s nationwide strike, including the Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, the National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers (NUCECFWW), the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), and the National Union of Banks Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE).
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