By Alice Etuka, and
The Federal Government has invited leaders and stakeholders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to an emergency meeting over the ongoing nationwide strike.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume summoned organised labour to the emergency meeting in order to prevent further economic losses.
The meeting is slated for tomorrow Tuesday, June 4, 2024 and would be held at the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government and organised labour held a meeting which ended in a deadlock after the government and organised private sector raised their offers to N60,000.
The government added N3,000 to its initial offer of N57,000 proposed last week, taking the total figure to N60,000.
This was dismissed by labour at the meeting.
The labour union again lowered its demand by removing N3,000 from the N497,000 it proposed last week, pegging the new proposal at N494,000.
Reaching no consensus, the duo held another meeting on Friday. This did not yield a positive result too as government failed to shift grounds on the N60,000 it pr
Strike: FG, Labour To Hold Emergency Meeting Tomorrow
By Alice Etuka, and
The Federal Government has invited leaders and stakeholders of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to an emergency meeting over the ongoing nationwide strike.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume summoned organised labour to the emergency meeting in order to avert the ongoing strike over a new national minimum wage.
The meeting is slated for tomorrow Tuesday, June 4, 2024 and would be held at the National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government and organised labour held a meeting which ended in a deadlock after the government and organised private sector raised their offers to N60,000.
The government added N3,000 to its initial offer of N57,000 proposed last week, taking the total figure to N60,000.
This was dismissed by labour at the meeting.
The labour union again lowered its demand by removing N3,000 from the N497,000 it proposed last week, pegging the new proposal at N494,000.
Reaching no consensus, the duo held another meeting on Friday. This did not yield a positive result too as government failed to shift grounds on the N60,000 it proposed during the last meeting.
The NLC President, Joe Ajaero then declared that a strike action be embarked upon, adding that the meeting with the federal government demonstrated the unseriousness and apparent contempt with which the Nigerian state holds the demands of Nigerian workers and people:
“No governor was present and ministers absent except the Minister of State for Labour and Employment who doubles as a conciliator. There was none present on the side of the government with the appropriate authority to commit them to any outcome; in essence, the government abandoned the meeting. We consider this disdainful and shows a lack of commitment to a successful National Minimum Wage negotiation exercise,” he said.
