The Nigeria Labour Congress NLC and the Trade Union Congress TUC, have declared an indefinite strike commencing from Monday, 3rd, June 2024
Festus Osifo, President of the TUC, while speaking for the Organised Labour in Abuja on Friday, said the action followed the breakdown of negotiation for a new National Minimum Wage
Recall that the negotiation which resumed on Friday, again ended in deadlock as labour officials walked out of the meeting.
NLC officials left the Nicon Luxury Hotel, Abuja, the venue of the 37-man tripartite committee meeting at about 2.45 pm.
Festus Osifo, the Trade Union Congress TUC, President told BusinessDay that they were leaving the venue because the government team did not have anything new to offer
BusinessDay gathered that the Organised Labour will later this afternoon address a world press conference on the way forward
Nigeria Labour Congress NLC and the Trade Union Congress TUC, had last week, rejected the N60000 fresh offer put forward by the federal government, heightening tension over a possible industrial action, as the May 31st deadline given by the organised labour expires today, Friday.
Osifo explained that the Organised Labour had no choice but to embark on the strike as government officials did not attend Friday’s tripartite meeting.
” We attended because as patriotic citizens, we felt that was the right thing to do, but we discovered that there were no government officials, except the Minister of State for Labour and Employment who is the facilitator of the meeting
Details shortly…