NLC assures there’ll be no strike tomorrow as union vows to reject N100,000 ‘Starvation Wage’
The Organised Labour has vowed to reject the N100,000 minimum wage, even as the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero assures that the labour strike will not resume the suspended nationwide strike tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 June, 2024.
It would be recalled that the workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), gave the federal government a one-week grace period last Tuesday, June 4, 2024.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Monday, June 10, Chris Onyeka, an Assistant General Secretary of the NLC, said: “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 facts 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).
However, speaking at the ongoing International Labour Conference (ILC) organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva, in Switzerland, Ajaero said labour would wait for President Bola Tinubu to do the right thing.
@The tripartite committee submitted two figures to the president. Government and employers proposed N62,000. We ae waiting for the decision of the President. Our National Executive Council (NEC) will deliberate on the new figure when it is out”
When reminded that the one-week ‘relaxation’ of the nationwide strike expired tomorrow he said, “We cannot declare strike now because the figures are with the President. We will wait for the President’s decision.
“During the tenure of the immediate past President, the figure that was proposed to him was N27,000 by the tripartite committee but he increased it to N30,000. We are hopeful that this President will do the right thing. The President had noted that the difference between N62,000 and N250,000 is a wide gulf”.
