“That will go a long way in addressing the hunger issue that teeming youths are protesting against,” he said.
“We have never considered accepting ₦62,000 or any other wage that we know is below what we know is able to take Nigerian workers home,” said an NLC official.
The electricity tariff hike and discriminatory band classification remain unacceptable and must be addressed alongside the wage increase.
No worker would be victimized as a result of the industrial action.
“The supplementary bill turned out to be a competition for luxury and ostentatious items including a N5 billion yacht.”
JUAC locked the secretariat entrance on Monday in compliance with the labour union’s infinite industrial action.
Indeed, this government is open to the committee’s suggestion of not just a minimum wage but a living wage.
“It is now N615,000. Regarding when the new minimum wage, the committee is still working,” said the TUC president.
He said that labour had insisted that the October 2, 2023, agreements between them and the administration be notarised by the court.
Festus Osifo, the TUC president, said the strike would remain until “government at all levels wake up to their responsibility.”
