Abia State NLC, TUC threatens strike

If the state administration does not demonstrate sincerity and transparency in the negotiations for the payment of the new minimum wage, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Abia State have vowed to revive their suspended strike on November 2, 2024. 

Despite this, organised labour has maintained that the new minimum wage will still be paid to Abia workers on July 29, 2024.

Ikechi Enogwe, the chairman of the TUC, and Okoro Ogbonnaya, the chairman of the NLC, announced at their State Action Committee and State Executive Council meeting on Saturday that they had decided to give the state government a seven-day ultimatum to finish negotiating the new minimum wage. The ultimatum period began on Saturday, October 26, 2024, and ends at midnight on Friday, November 1,2024.

"At the expiration of this ultimatum by midnight of Friday, 1st November 2024, the organized labour would be forced to reactivate her earlier suspended strike action,” the joint communique by NLC and TUC warned.

The labour leaders claimed that the Abia State administration had not yet provided them with a transparent minimum wage payment template.

According to the communique, “whatever the state government wants to pay the workers this October, will be termed as bonus payment to cushion the effect of hardship/ palliative award and not minimum wage”.

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