NLC calls for upward review of workers’ salaries
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday in Abuja reiterated its call for the upward review of workers’ salaries.
Speaking with journalists, NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, said the salary review for the entire public sector was imperative as it was long overdue, noting that workers’ purchasing power was ebbing.
“We want to make a formal demand on behalf of the Joint Service Negotiation Council for the review of wages in the entire public sector because it is actually due,’’ he said.
He noted that there had not been any salary increase for workers in the public sector in the last 13 years outside the implementation of the national minimum wage.
“We should not confuse the National Minimum Wage with salary review.
“Salary review is a different bargaining process which in time past was led by the Joint Service Negotiation Council. It is long overdue,’’ he said.
Mr Wabba stressed that the minimum wage could no longer take a worker home and could barely be used as transport fare.
He also called on the executive and legislative arms of government to intervene in issues affecting Judiciary workers.
“If at this point the workers are complaining about their wages, it means that something is wrong.
“We call on the two other arms of government to take this issue very seriously,’’ the NLC president said.
The members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria and the National Assembly Service Commission staff threatened to embark on strike on June 6 over unpaid national minimum wage.
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