AKPABIO FAILED TO CONVINCE LABOUR LEADERS, STRIKE GOES ON
Following a four-hour meeting with the administration of the National assembly Sunday night in Abuja, the initiative of the Coordinated Work says there is no way but forward on the strike activity scheduled to begin on Monday, June 3, 2024.
Prior, Osifo, the Leader of the Worker’s guild Congress (TUC); and his partner in the Nigeria Work Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero; met with Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the Place of Delegates Tajudeen Abbas. in Abuja.
The gathering was important for latest possible moment endeavors by the officials to convince distressed laborers to hold their arranged strike for another lowest pay permitted by law.
The National assembly said the meeting was to “avert the approaching strike” to initiate on Monday, June 3, 2024, “which would have serious repercussions on the general population and economy”.
The choice of the LU followed the halt between the federal Government and the associations over New minimum wage and inversion of the new climb in power taxes.
The Directors of the Senate and House Advisory groups on Work, Business and Efficiency separately, Diket Plang, and Adegboyega Adefarati, were additionally at the gathering.
“Until further notice, we don’t have the ability to cancel the strike, tomorrow (Monday) morning, the strike will start off as we take their (NASS) supplication requesting that we cancel the strike to our different organs,” said Festus Osifo after the gathering with NASS administration.
The federal government has been interesting to coordinated work to hold the strike, taking note of its antagonistic impact on the generally striving economy.
Somewhat recently meeting of the lowest pay permitted by law three sided board, the federal government halted at N60,000 as the sum for another public the lowest pay permitted by law, while coordinated work demand N494,000, a sum which the public authority has portrayed as crazy.
