The Nigeria
Labour Congress has said it will begin a nationwide protest to drive its demand
for the upward review of the national minimum wage from N18, 000 to N30, 000
today.
The General
Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, disclosed this in a statement on
Monday.
However, he
said that there would be no strike for now.
Ozo-Eson,
therefore, asked members of the public to disregard reports that the strike
would begin today.
“It has come
to our attention that some sections of the news media have largely
misrepresented our action plan in reaction to the delay in transmitting the
recommendations of the Tripartite Committee on a new national minimum wage to
the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“It should be
recalled that the National Executive Council of the NLC met on December 17 last
year and directed that we hold nationwide mobilisation of workers and our
allies if, by December 31, 2018, the bill on the national minimum wage was yet
to be sent to the National Assembly to be passed as an Act of Parliament.
“We
immediately announced then that on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, there will be a
nationwide mass mobilisation and protests simultaneously across all states in
Nigeria.
“This does
not translate to a strike,” the statement reads in part.
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