Minimum wage: Strike continues pending Tuesday review meeting -NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLc) has said that the ongoing nationwide strike would continue despite the agreement signed with the Federal Government at Monday’s meeting.
In a post on X, on Tuesday, NLC said the industrial action, which has grounded the nation’s economy, would continue until Tuesday’s meeting of organs of the union where all resolutions of Monday’s meeting are expected to be reviewed.
“Until we hear from our organs at our meeting scheduled for today, June 4, we are still on strike”, the post reread.
After a six-hour meeting with the leadership of the organised labour in Abuja on Monday, the Federal Government expressed the commitment of President Bola Tinubu to pay minimum wage of at least N60,000.
The agreement stated that, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage”.
The organised labour also agreed to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimisation as a consequence of participating in the industrial action”.
