In Osogbo, the Osun State capital, workers marched to the House of Assembly and urged its members to stop the bill which proposed the removal of minimum wage from the Exclusive List to Concurrent List.
Owoeye said the state would always support the workers noting that political functionaries in Osun have denied themselves a lot to ensure that they pay minimum wage to workers in the state. Bauchi NLC Chairman Danjuma Saleh said the move to transfer the national minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent legislative list is an affront to the legitimate workers’ rights. He described the planned removal as a declaration of war on Nigerian workers by the National Assembly.
Fadeyi, who described the bill as obnoxious, anti-workers and not-too-friendly, said the Oyo State Assembly, as a citizen-friendly chamber, would only listen to the yearnings of the people before taking any decision. Speaker Kunle Oluomo assured the labour that the House of Assembly has the interest of workers at heart, saying their request for the support on national minimum would always be granted anytime the bill comes up for debate.
Members of the NLC in Imo State presented a letter signed by their Chairman, Austin Chilapku and Secretary Ken Onwuemeodo, to the House of Assembly. The Speaker, Katsina State Assembly, Hon. Tas’u Musa Magairi, urged the union to be patient while their demand was being looked into.The workers threatened to disrupt November 6 governorship election in Anambra State if the issue of minimum wage was not trashed out by the state government.
The labour alleged that some governors’ within the ruling APC who they branded ‘enemies of workers’ contracted Hon. Garba Muhammed, representing Sabon Gari federal constituency, Kaduna State to initiate the wage re-classification bill. In Lagos, the organised labour vowed to resist the bill. Members of the NLC, TUC, Nigerian Union of Local Government Workers and other unions, marched on the House of Assembly yesterday to protest the ‘obnoxious bill’.
Nurudeen Solaja-Saka , who addressed the protesters, promised that their requests will be delivered to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mudasiru Obama, who he said was on a state assignment. “We are together and we appreciate your peaceful demonstration. Mr speaker is on a state assignment and we will forward your demands to the general house and take appropriate actions. Thank you,” he said.
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