Labour unions declare indefinite strike over minimum wage, others
Members of the organised labour, under the aegis of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterpart, on Friday declared an indefinite strike from June 3rd, 2024 over government’s refusal to raise the minimum wage from N60,000 and the failure to reverse the hike in the electricity tariff.
Joe Ajaero, the President of NLC, who disclosed this at an ongoing press conference in Labour House, Abuja, said the strike begins by the midnight of Sunday, June 2, 2024.
According to the labour leaders, the decision follows the expiration of an earlier request to the Federal Government to conclude all negotiations for a new minimum wage before the end of May.
“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,” the unions said.
“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.”