The organised labour is to meet by midnight on Tuesday to take a decision if the Federal Government and National Assembly do not meet its demand on the proposed minimum wage
Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria labour Congress (NLC), Chris Onyeka, disclosed this when he was a guest on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’ show on Monday.
Spokesperson of the NLC, Benson Upah, also confirmed to 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE that with the expiration of the five days suspension of the indefinite strike action, labour leaders would meet to discuss the next course of action.
“We have rejected the N62,000 minimum wage given by the FG. What is the N62,000 for? The FG has not told us what the N62,000 is for. Is it for housing, health or feeding?” he stated.
Nigerian workers under the auspices of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) suspended their strike for one week to resume negotiations with the government on the minimum wage.
There have been five meetings by the Tripartite Committee set up by the FG to decide an acceptable minimum wage figure since the suspension of the strike and the federal government has reportedly propsed a N62,000 minimum wage.
Onyeka said the strike would resume if the federal government maintains its position of paying N62,000.
“If our demand is not met, the one-week notice we issued will expire tomorrow. If we do not receive a tangible response by then, the organs of organised labour will meet to decide our next steps,” he said.
He insisted that N250,000 remains Labour’s demand.
