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N62k minimum wage: Indefinite strike continues on Tuesday- Labour

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We didn't agree on N62k, our stand is N250k- Labour to Tinubu

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have said strike for the demand for living wage for workers will continue tomorrow (Tuesday).

 

NLC’s Assistant Secretary-General, Chris Onyeka, said Labour would not accept the proposal and government’s insensitive N62,000 minimum wage.

 

Chris said organized labour would not accept any offer of N100,000 minimum wage if presented by the federal government. Speaking on Monday, June 10, the NLC Assistant Secretary said labour has made its stand known to the federal government. He said the last indefinite strike was relaxed for the government to look at its demand and take the right action; but by Tuesday, TUC and NLC executives would reconvene if the demand is not met to take action.

 

Onyeka said what Tinubu’s administration must do should be to send executive bill to the National Assembly for speedy passing into law their demand.

 

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“The Federal Government and the National Assembly have the call now. It is not our call. Our demand is there for them (the government) to look at and send an Executive Bill to the National Assembly, and for the National Assembly to look at what we have demanded, the various fact of the law, and then come up with a National Minimum Act that meets our demands.

 

“If that does not meet our demand, we have given the Federal Government a one-week notice to look at the issues and that one week expires tomorrow (Tuesday). If after tomorrow, we have not seen any tangible response from the government, the organs of the Organised Labour will meet to decide on what next,” Mr Onyeka said in an interview on national programme.

 

On its last demand for N250,000 minimum wage and whether labour would accept N62,000 proposed by government. Chris said labour would not accept N100,000 minimum wage, stating, “it was clear what we said. We said we are relaxing a nationwide indefinite strike. It’s like putting a pause on it. So, if you put a pause on something and that organs that govern us as trade unions decide that we should remove that pause, it means that we go back to what was in existence before.”