Members of organised labour are currently meeting with the leaders of the national assembly over the planned indefinite strike slated to start on June 3….CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>

Joe Ajaero, president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and his Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterpart, Femi Osifo, led other union leaders to the meeting.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives, are presiding over the meeting called to avert the impending strike and discuss the new minimum wage.

On Friday, NLC and TUC declared an indefinite strike over the federal government’s refusal to increase the minimum wage from N60,000.

Recently, the federal and state governments, organised labour, and the private sector commenced discussion over the new minimum wage.

Initially, the labour unions had proposed N615,500 as the minimum wage, citing the high cost of living.

However, the federal government rejected the N615,500 proposal and offered N48,000.

On May 15, the NLC and TUC rejected the N48,000 minimum wage offered by the government.

On May 21, the federal government increased the proposed minimum wage to N54,000, which the labour again rejected and described as “unacceptable”.

Again, the federal government proposed N60,000, and it was rejected.

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