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Minimum wage: Labour talks tough as ultimatum ends Wednesday

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As the 14-day ultimatum issued to the Federal Government by organised labour over a new national minimum wage ends Wednesday, Labour leaders have declared that only the government can stop the planned industrial action by doing the needful.

Specifically, leaders of organised labour said the government knows their demand; which is to name a figure and reconvene the meeting of the tripartite committee on the minimum wage to conclude the process of announcing a new national minimum wage.

Failure to do that, leaders of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, and United Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, insisted that a nationwide industrial unrest is inevitable.

Speaking to Sunday Vanguard, President of NLC, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, said the National Executive Council, NEC, of NLC, had given NLC leaders a mandate which is to, alongside other leaders of organised labour to declare appropriate industrial action or any action it deems necessary, should government fail to meet their demands.

Vanguard, September 23, 2018

 

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