Minimum Wage: NLC Suspends Planned Strike

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has called off its planned nationwide industrial action.

The President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, made the announcement in Abuja while addressing journalists at the end of a meeting with the tripartite committee set up by the Federal Government.

The NLC had announced that the strike will commence today, November 6 over its demand for new national minimum wage.

Recall that the NLC is demanding that the minimum wage for workers be increased from the current 18,000 to N30,000.

Wabba said, “The tripartite negotiating committee this evening concluded its assignment. Agreement has been reached and also documents have been signed. The report will be submitted to Mr. President tomorrow by 4:15 pm.

“Therefore, as organised labour, we want to use this medium to thank all the tripartite partners for their understanding and importantly for concluding this very national assignment.

“And having reached this position, and also the fact that the assignment has been concluded, organised labour also decided that the proposed industrial action is hereby suspended.

“Therefore, we thought this should be communicated appropriately without also any delusion or missing information.

“As the chairperson have said, mutual agreements have been reached and this will be made public tomorrow and we must appreciate the roles that organised private sectors have actually demonstrated and the attitude brought to this process and to members of the tripartite negotiating team.”