Minimum wage: NLC, TUC begin indefinite strike Monday

and the Trade Union Congress yesterday declared an indefinite strike effective Monday, June 2 after the latest negotiation with the federal government on the new minimum wage and the recent hike of electricity tariff ended in a deadlock.

The government added N3,000 to the N57,000 it proposed last week, taking the total figure to N60,000. In a joint address, the NLC and TUC expressed “grave concern and disappointment over the federal government failure to conclude and pass into law a new National Minimum Wage Act and reverse the vexatious hike in electricity tariff to N65/kwh.”

“We also demanded a reversal of the last hike in electricity tariff to N225/kwh back to N65/kwh and stoppage of the apartheid categorisation of consumers into Bands. “It has, rather than engage in a dialogue, persistently raised its attack dogs to seek to denigrate and intimidate trade union leaders. “The NLC and TUC are united in this cause, and we call on all our affiliates and state councils, Civil Society Organisations, market men and women and the general populace to prepare for a decisive action.

The 37-man committee is chaired by the former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Goni Aji. The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association yesterday expressed disappointment at the failure of the tripartite committee to arrive at a consensus on the new minimum wage. On the decision of organised labour to walk out on the negotiation and declare indefinite strike, the NECA DG said: “While it is within the right of organised labour to embark on any action it deems fit and necessary to achieve its objectives, organised businesses will also, within extant legislation, do all that is necessary to protect enterprise sustainability and protect jobs.”

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