Minimum wage: Approve N250,000 demand to match inflationary trend, Labour tells Tinubu

Speaking to Vanguard, a member of the organised labour negotiating team in the Tripartite Committee of the New National Minimum Wage and President-General of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, accused state governors of stalling efforts at achieving a reasonable wage for public workers.

”We started having that issue at the negotiating table where they were dragging from N30, 000 to N48, 000 and to N60, 000. They were pricing as if it were tomatoes and onions before they now finally came out and said N62,000. “We all know what the harsh economy situation is and the workers have not been happy with the economic downturn. At the close of negotiations, we had two position papers; one from government and OPS sides that recommended N62, 000 and N250, 000 from the Labour side which includes TUC and NLC.

”That is why we are appealing to him as a friend of workers who persistently promised to give workers a living wage to approve the N250, 000. “Nothing stops him from approving it, but we heard that he said he would only approve what is what the economy can afford.

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