Abia workers to join NLC, TUC indefinite strike

The Nigeria Labour Congress's Abia State branch has pledged to follow the Trade Union Congress' and NLC's instruction to launch an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday. 

Following the Federal Government's inability to complete and enact a new National Minimum Wage Act and undo the increase in the price of energy to N65/kwh, the NLC and TUC announced a strike on Friday. 

This was revealed in an interview on Friday by Ogbonnaya Okoro, the chairman of the Abia NLC.

“We will join the strike. By this weekend, we will start mobilisation and join others. The order is just coming this night and we will communicate them on Monday. It will begin on Monday and will not stop on Monday.

“The offices are not open on weekends and we will not go beyond the law. The arrangement came suddenly. We will follow the due process and serve them. We will call for state emergency meeting on Monday. We will do the necessary things so that we will not be faulted.

“The order came late and you don’t serve notices on Saturday, so we will do that on Monday,” he said.

The Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 was signed into law by former President Muhammadu Buhari in April of that year.

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