The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have declared indefinite nationwide strike beginning from Monday, June 3rd, over the tripartite committee’s inability to agree on a new minimum wage.
They are also demanding a reversal of a recent hike in electricity.
The President of the TUC, Comrade Festus Osifo announced this at a joint news conference in Abuja on Friday.
Comrade Osifo said the decision follows the expiration of the deadline of May 31, 2024 given to the Federal Government to conclude all negotiations for a new minimum wage.
“Since the National Minimum Wage negotiation exercise has not been concluded and the agreed wage passed into law; the hike in electricity tariff has not been reversed and the categorization of consumers into Bands has not stopped as demanded; Nigerian workers are compelled by these failures to embark on an indefinite nationwide industrial action beginning on Monday, the 3rd of June, 2024 to press home our demands.” Comrade Osifo stated.
The organised labour had once pulled out of the negotiation and rejected two Federal Government offer last Tuesday, the latest being N60,000 as Labour insist on N497,000 as minimum wage.
The two centres thereby issued a notice of commencement of an indefinite nationwide strike until the Federal Government is ready to negotiate.
The organized labour met with Federal Government on Friday, the meeting did not yield any fruitful result.
