The leadership of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) are set to convene a joint extraordinary National Executive Council over their ongoing struggle to push for the increment in national minimum wage in the country.
It was learned that the labour unions’ meeting would be held on Tuesday morning, according to sources who are also attending the meeting.
The outcome of the meeting will determine whether the strike by the organised Labour will continue or be suspended following the agreement reached between the leadership of labour and the Federal Government.
The Nigeria Labour Congress had earlier said there is no plan of calling off the ongoing nationwide strike until Tuesday’s meeting of organs of the union where all resolutions of Monday’s meeting are expected to be reviewed.
This was revealed in a post on X on Tuesday despite having signed an agreement with the Nigerian government last night.
“Until we hear from our organs at our meeting scheduled for today, June 4, we are still on strike,” the post had read.
The agreement was signed after six hours of meeting on Monday,
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, announced this after the meeting with the labour leaders in Abuja which started at 5pm and ended a few minutes to 11pm.
The agreement stated that, “The President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is 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.”
The organised labour also agreed to “immediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimisation as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.”
These resolutions were signed on behalf of the Federal Government by Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, and Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.
Media had reported that the organised Labour comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress declared an indefinite nationwide strike over the inability of the federal government to pay Nigerian workers a living wage.
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