Minimum Wage: NLC Rejects N22,500, Tell Workers To Prepare For Indefinite Strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress, has condemned the resolutions made by the Nigeria Governors Forum which offered to pay N22,500 as new minimum wage for workers.

BREAKING: NLC slams govs’ forum, demands N66,500 minimum wage. The Nigeria Labour Congress has lambasted the Nigeria Governors’ Forum for pegging the minimum wage at N22, 500. The NLC subsequently pegged the minimum wage at N66, 500. The President of the NLC, Mr. Ayuba Wabba. pic.twitter.com/vJXPhPWzng

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Disclosing this in Abuja the President of the union, Mr. Ayuba Wabba opined that NGF was not known to law and was thus an illegal body which cannot give verdict on issues out its jurisdiction.

“The demand of Organised Labour is not N30,000; our demand is N66,500,” Mr Wabba said at the conference.

The NLC and other labour unions had earlier threatened to commence strike by November 6 if the government does not accept the N30,000 minimum wage.

“We wish to reiterate our position adopted at our National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of 23 rd October, 2018 that any figure below N30,000 will not be accepted by us.

“We call on our members to continue to mobilise in preparation for the commencement of an indefinite strike on the 6th of November, 2018, if by then necessary steps have not been taken to adopt the recommendations of the Tripartite Committee,” he said.

He  also advised all the governors to return to their respective states and consult with workers, demanding that every governor should pay N66,500 to every worker as minimum wage.