Admin l Sunday, September 30, 2018
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has suspended the two days strike it embarked upon to press home their demand for upward review of salaries of workers. Labour suspended the strike few days after meeting with government.
Speaking in Abuja, NLC President, Ayuba Wabba said that the organised labour has gotten firm commitment from the government that the Tripartite Committee of the Minimum Wage Committee will reconvenes on Thursday, October 4, during which President Muhammadu Buhari would have addressed the nation.
Recall that NLC was last week at the Presidential Villa where it met with Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari. Kyari said the meeting was called to exactly know what stalled the ongoing negotiation on minimum wage and not specifically for the amount the government was proposing.
Commenting after the meeting Ayuba Wabba said his team had a fruitful deliberation with the Chief of Staff and that the discussion will be taken to the necessary organs of labour.
“The Chief of Staff tried to give us detail of government position which we will have to go and convey to our members and then we can revert back to him. “This is how far we have gone but clearly I think we have tried to share details of the information that partain to the issue of the National Minimum Wage and how the ongoing negotiation was stalled and also the best way to get out of it. Government have given us their words which we will also go and communicate to our members and revert back to government”, he said.
