The Organized Labour has made it known that it won’t accept a meagre addition to the ₦60,000 earlier proposed by the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage.
The President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Festus Osifo, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.
“At the meeting on Friday, they (the tripartite committee) said they would not add anything more to the ₦60,000 but in the meeting of yesterday (Monday), Mr President was able to commit to doing what is more than ₦60,000,” Osifo said.
The TUC boss added, “No, we also told them that it’s not that we’d get to the table and you start adding ₦1, ₦2, ₦3,000 as you were doing and we got some good guarantees here and there that they would do something good” when asked whether Labour would accept a few thousand naira additions to the last offer by the Federal Government.
Osifo further explained that the new minimum wage must be equal in purchasing power to the value of ₦30,000 in 2019 and ₦18,000 in 2014.
The Organized Labour earlier suspended its nationwide strike on Tuesday.
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