The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC has explained why their joint National Executive Council, NEC suspended the indefinite nationwide strike that began on May 3rd.
NLC and TUC Presidents, Joe Ajaero and Festus Osifo, in a communiqué, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s personal offer to commit to paying workers a higher minimum wage and the need to create an atmosphere for the negotiations to continue unhindered are the main reasons labour decided to relax the strike.
The organised labour also expressed hope that the Federal government will commit to an acceptable Minimum Wage and take definitive steps to reverse the electricity tariff hike to back 66 naira kilowatts per hour and abolish the discriminatory classification of electricity consumers into Bands.
The NEC-in-session also examined the circumstances behind the union’s withdrawal from the tripartite national minimum wage negotiation process within the context of the behaviour of the government towards the exercise and the content of the Understanding reached with Labour.
