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Labour Begins Strike Monday Over New Minimum Wage, Electricity Tariff Increase

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) says it will begin a nationwide strike effective from Monday, June 3rd, 2024 over the tripartite committee’s inability to reach agree on a new minimum wage and electricity tariff hike.

Festus Osifo, the President of the TUC announced the strike at a joint press briefing with the leadership of the NLC in Abuja on Friday.

The organised labour had rejected two Federal Government offers, the latest being N60,000, and insisted on N497,000 as minimum wage.

According to the labour leaders, the nationwide strike would continue until the issues of a new minimum wage and the increase in electricity tariff are resolved.

Osifo said: “In light of this persistent inaction, we, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), hereby issue a notice of commencement of an indefinite nationwide strike to the Federal Government.

“We reiterate that since the National Minimum Wage negotiation exercise has not been concluded and the agreed wage passed into law; the hike in electricity tariff has not been reversed and the categorization of consumers into Bands has not stopped as demanded; Nigerian workers are compelled by these failures to embark on an indefinite nationwide industrial action beginning on Monday, the 3rd of June, 2024 to press home our demands.”

 

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