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Minimum wage: Strike continues till Tuesday’s review meeting – NLC.

 

By: Adisa Deborah

 

The Nigeria Labour Congress has announced that the ongoing nationwide strike will continue, notwithstanding the agreement reached with the Federal Government at Monday’s meeting.

 

The congress, in a post on X, said on Tuesday that the industrial action that has halted the nation’s economy will continue until Tuesday’s meeting of union organs when all resolutions from Monday’s meeting will be examined.

 

“Until we hear from our organs at our meeting scheduled for today, June 4, we are still on strike,” the message stated.

 

According to The STRIKE, following a six-hour meeting with the leadership of organized labor in Abuja, the Federal Government expressed President Bola Tinubu’s commitment to increase the N60,000 minimum salary.

 

The document claimed 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 finalize an agreeable National Minimum Wage.”

 

The labor organization also pledged to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimization as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.”

 

Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, and Mohammed Idris, Minister of Information and National Orientation, signed these resolutions on behalf of the Federal Government.

 

The President of the National Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero, and the President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, represented organized labor.