The organised labour is not insisting on the N494,000-naira minimum wage, but vowed that it would not accept any little addition to the N60,000 the Federal Government offered as new minimum wage.
The president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, disclosed this when he appeared on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Tuesday night.
According to Osifo, the tripartite committee must show seriousness and offer workers something economically realistic in tandem with current inflationary trends.
“No, we also told them that it is not that we would get to the table and you start adding N1, N2, N3,000 as you were doing and we got some good guarantees here and there that they would do something good,” he said.
Osifo gave a hint of what the labour expects from the FG when he said the new minimum wage must be equal in purchasing power to the value of N30,000 in 2019 and N18,000 in 2014.
The organised labour on Monday shut down economic and social services nationwide on an indefinite strike over the government’s refusal to pay more than N60,000 as new minimum wage.
The labour suspended the strike for five days to allow for the continuation of negotiations after an extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and TUC on Tuesday.
