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Keep National Grid Running Amid Minimum Wage Strike – Nigerian Plead
Nigerians have voiced out in plead to NLC, TUC to avoid shutting down the national grid. This is in view of the soon rising between the organized labour and the federal government.
Concerned Nigerians are worried that the strike action may lead to another shutdown of the national grid.
Recall on Monday, the NLC firmly rejected the government’s proposals of N62,000 and N100,000 as the new minimum wage.
Chris Onyeka, the Assistant General Secretary, described the offers by FG as “starvation wages.”
He says “Our position is very clear. We have never considered accepting N62,000 or any other wage that we know is below what can take Nigerian workers home.
He said organized labour will not negotiate a starvation wage. The NLC continues to demand a N250,000 minimum wage, which Onyeka described as “enough concession to the government and the other social partners.”
With the federal government’s grace period expiring at midnight on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, Nigerians are flooding social media with appeals to keep the national grid operational during the strike.
The reactions and concerns have remained a trending thread on social media.
