Disquiet was brewing on Friday night after the Federal Government increased its offer of a new national minimum wage to N62,000, well below the expectation of organised Labour which went on strike in anger to the N60,000 offer earlier offered by the federal administration.
DECENCY GLOBAL NEWS reports that labour had lowered its demand of a new minimum wage to N250,000, well below the N494,000 proposed by labour.
The Tripartite Committee on New National Minimum Wage has adjourned as there was no consensus at the meeting.
The federal government and Organised Private Sector (OPS) agreed on the N62,000 offer as the new National Minimum Wage, but the Organized Labour has made up its mind, insisting on N250,000 figure
The disagreement is likely to force the umbrella bodies of the civil servants in the country – Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress – to reactivate its relaxed indefinite strike action earlier embarked upon by their members on Monday.
It will be recalled that the Tripartite Committee had earlier offered N60,000 as minimum wage to the workers, a development which made the Organised Labour to withdraw from the negotiation table and declared an indefinite strike action to press home its demands.
At the end of the first day of the devastating strike action on Monday, the SGF, Senator George Akume, spearheaded a meeting with the Labour unions afterwhich a four-point resolution was reached, including a commitment by President Bola Tinubu to pay a new minimum wage higher than the N60,000 offer.
Thereafter on Tuesday, the President told the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to work a realistic national minimum wage within 48 hours.
At press time on Friday night, the formal reaction of the Organised Labour on the latest development was being awaited.
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What’s keeping labour from begining their strike cos Nigeria government don’t value it’s masses