{"id":12869,"date":"2018-10-21T22:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2018-10-21T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:27:04","slug":"labour-mulls-dtrike-for-nov-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12869","title":{"rendered":"Labour mulls strike for Nov. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three major unions in Nigeria said they will call out workers on nationwide strike on November 6, if the Federal Government fails to meet its demand on the new National Minimum Wage of N30,000 agreed upon.
\nMr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) made this known on Sunday in a statement jointly signed with Mr Bobbio Kaigama, President, Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Mr Joe Ajaero, President, United Labour Congress (ULC).
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) recalls that the unions had said that the Tripartite Committee on the New National Minimum Wage had concluded its negotiations and agreed on N30, 000 following an appeal made by Organised Private Sector (OPS).
\nNAN also reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige at the end the Federal Executive meeting, while briefing newsmen, had said that the Tripartite Committee on the National Minimum Wage was yet to conclude its negotiations.
\nNAN recalls that the Governors made a proposal of N20,000 while the Federal Government made an offer of N24,000.
\nWabba said since the government appears unwilling to cave in to their demands, the unions have resolved to organise a one-day of National outrage and mourning, which would be used to sensitise Nigerians on the workers\u2019 plight and on the issues at stake.
\n\u201cThis shall take place in all states of the federation including Abuja on Tuesday, the 30th day of October, 2018 and a meeting of various organs of the Unions will hold as appropriate.
\n\u201cOn Friday, Nov. 2, a Joint Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting of all the Labour Centres in Nigeria shall hold to receive reports and make final preparations for our ultimate engagement with the Federal Government on this matter.
\n\u201c This is the first time in the history of this nation in recent times that such meeting will take place and this goes a long way to show the seriousness with which Nigerian workers and its leadership hold this matter.
\n\u201cIf nothing is responsibly done by the Federal Government to meet our demands, on Monday, Nov.6 we shall embark on a nationwide strike,\u2019\u2019 he said.
\nHe added that this would compel government to show more sensitivity to the plight of Nigerians and the suffering that is decimating our people on daily basis.
\nWabba also called on Nigerians and workers not to be discouraged in the struggle for the new National Minimum Wage.
\nHe explained that it was not true that organised labour had proposed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage.
\n\u201cIt is also not true that the committee did not agree on a figure during its last sitting. We accepted N30,000 as a compromise to demonstrate the willingness of Nigerian workers to make sacrifices towards nation building.
\n\u201c Anything to the contrary no matter the quantum and character of the din or how well couched it may appear cannot be true.
\n\u201c Resorting to Goebbelsianism at this time of national emergency, which requires men and women of integrity is rather unfortunate and cannot suddenly make the brazen falsehoods truths.
\n\u201c\u2019We believe that it has become necessary for the Organised Private Sector (OPS) as represented in the Tripartite Committee to speak up on this matter.
\n\u201c Keeping silent in the face of this apparent mischief does our nation no good. It can only help mischief, dishonesty and impunity to grow,\u201d Wabba said.
\nThe NLC president, however, said it was time for the OPS to rise to the occasion by telling Nigerians what transpired in that meeting.
\nWabba added that they should tell Nigerians whether there was a consensus on a final figure.
\n\u201c If there was a document signalling this agreement that had already been signed by some parties?
\n\u201c If also the N30,000 figure was ours or a compromised figure based on proposed scenarios,\u201d\u2019 he said
\nBy www.nan.ng<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three major unions in Nigeria said they will call out workers on nationwide strike on November 6, if the Federal Government fails to meet its demand on the new National Minimum Wage of N30,000 agreed upon. Mr Ayuba Wabba, President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) made this known on Sunday in a statement jointly signed with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}