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New Minimum Wage: NLC Gives Update On Nationwide Strike After Meeting With FG
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has announced that the current nationwide strike will persist, even though a deal was reached with the Federal Government during their joint meeting on Monday evening.
Nation Post reports that the Congress confirmed this in a statement via its official X handle on Tuesday morning.
It mentioned that the industrial strike, which has halted the country’s economic activities, will go on until the union’s meeting on Tuesday, where it is anticipated that all decisions made in Monday’s meeting will be examined.
“Until we hear from our organs at our meeting scheduled for today, June 4, we are still on strike,” the post read.
Following a six-hour gathering with the leaders of the organised labour movement in Abuja, the Federal Government shared President Bola Tinubu’s pledge to increase the N60,000 amount proposed as the minimum wage.
Though no amount was fixed this time, the government agreed to a minimum wage higher than N60,000.
The agreement stated that “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage.”
The organised labour also agreed to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimisation as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.”
The agreements were ratified by Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, and Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, the Minister of State for Labour and Employment.
The heads of the NLC, Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, and the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, represented the organized labor sector.
