STRIKE!!! We Are Mobilising Our Members - Labour Tells Buhari Over Minimum Wage Delay - AMEBO NEWSPAPERS NG.

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Friday, 19 July 2019

STRIKE!!! We Are Mobilising Our Members - Labour Tells Buhari Over Minimum Wage Delay


The Nigeria Trade Union Congress (NTUC) disclosed on Monday, plans to swing into a nationwide strike action at the end of an ultimatum to be issued on the federal government, accusing it of dragging its feet over the implementation of the N30,000 national minimum wage.

"The implementation of the new minimum wage of N30,000 should have been done a long time ago since President Muhammadu Buhari signed it on April 18, 2019, but the government is dragging its feet over the matter needlessly. With the way things are, it seems the government is not interested in its implementation.

“We are going to issue an ultimatum to the federal government soon. We want the negotiation to resume before going ahead. However, if there is no solution to the problem of implementation in the next two weeks, we will issue the ultimatum. We have started mobilizing our members already,” the NTUC President, Quadri Olaleye, said.

He added, “The position of the National Joint Negotiating Council (NJNC)  to call on workers to go on strike is supported by the TUC. But we want to give the government an opportunity to do something about it before taking action over the non-implementation of the new minimum wage.

“We reject the government proposal’s of 9.5 percent salary raise for employees on Grade Levels 07 to 14 and five percent for those on Grade Levels 15 to 17. We have come down from about 66 percent raise but we cannot agree on what the government is pushing to us. The government should expect our action at any time if nothing is done,” Olaleye said in an interview with The Punch.

 “We have made a presentation to the federal government on this issue but it seems that the government is not ready to yield to the expectation of Nigerian workers.”

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