Labour unions suspend nationwide strike for 1 week
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended the ongoing nationwide strike for about one week.
The TUC president Festus Osifo said this on Tuesday in Abuja after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions.
Osifo said a communique will be issued shortly.
Both unions commenced an industrial action on Monday to register their grievances over the hike in electricity tariff and lack of consensus on a new minimum wage.
The strike action disrupted activities in critical sectors of the economy with schools, businesses, hospitals, and airports shut.
The national grid was also shut down, throwing the nation into total darkness.
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After one day of the nationwide strike, the Federal Government agreed to pay more than the N60,000 it initially proposed as new minimum wage.
At the end of the meeting held in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, on Monday evening, it was resolved that, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage.”