The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Joe Ajaero, made the demand on Wednesday in Abuja at the 2024 edition of the International Workers Day.
This year’s celebration focuses on ‘Ensuring Safety and Health at Work in a Changing Climate’.
The labour leader warned that if the negotiation is not concluded by the ending of May, there may not be industrial peace in Nigeria.
Ajaero said the process of fixing a new national minimum wage was still ongoing and had witnessed robust engagements.
“All parties in the tripartite process are well represented and the engagement has been robust.
“We have placed our demand of N615, 000 only before our social partners while we await their offer.
“If, however, the negotiation of the minimum wage is not concluded by the end of May, the trade union movement in Nigeria will no longer guarantee industrial peace in the country,” he said.
Ajaero also said labour had placed a demand that the new Act would have a two-year life span with an agreement for automatic adjustments in wages any time inflation exceeded 7.5 per cent.
He said the union further demanded that every employer with up to five workers should pay the new minimum wage.
Ajaero called for the strengthening of monitoring and compliance mechanisms in order to penalise non-complying state governments.
He said that Nigerian workers deserve to have a national minimum wage that approximated a living wage.
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Mtcheeewww.........jokers!
ReplyDeleteSince Osho baba left that position for politics they have never done one successful sit at home strike.
Enjoy your constant brown envelope.
ReplyDeleteHahahaha....this guys always make me lol with thier threats
ReplyDeleteI like their demands. 30,000 is a paltry sum, just $21 usd. May God help anyone having to sustain themselves and their family on the equivalent of a fast food meal with a dessert. Nobody’s labour should come that cheap, even if they are unskilled or uneducated.
ReplyDeleteWork is voluntary action. They can always choose to take their skills elsewhere.
DeleteExploitation of workers is also voluntary, those who do it can choose to stop the exploitation.
DeleteAlways talking no actions
ReplyDeleteHow I miss Baba Oshiomole's regime as Labor leader back in the days.
I am starting to believe that the people at the helm of the organized labor just want to sabotage this govt because how unreasonable can you be to ask for N615k as minimum wage ?where’s the money coming from with how thr country is using most of what it makes to service debts?
ReplyDeleteThat's the plan right from the onset. I think they should even ask for 5 million naira per week so it is obvious that they are just actively fooling themselves. I don't know labor has increased as regards production that they feel a budget 80 percent funded by borrowed money should be expended on 5 percent of the working population. What does Joe Ajaero pay his gateman and cook how much was the cost of the flight to go to Abuja to release this type of press statement or travel to Imo to play politics?
ReplyDeleteGod bless Edo state governor Obaseki 70k minimum wage
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