Civil servants in Lagos State, Monday, said they would receive nothing less than N50,000 as minimum wage.
The workers gathered in front of the Lagos State House of Assembly after a peaceful march from Ikeja under bridge yesterday.
Chairman of the State chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Funmi Sessi, said the special nature of Lagos called for the new demand.
Sessi said that the new demand was coming as part of the workers request to mark the World Day for Decent Work which is celebrated every October 7 worldwide.
The workers marched through the major streets of Lagos to the Alausa Secretariat brandishing placards with inscriptions such as, ‘Employers: Respect workers rights to join union’; ‘We have the right to good wage, decent work’; ‘No to wage poverty, yes to living wage’; ‘Invest in care economy, promote universal health care for children and elderly.’
The NLC chairman insisted that Lagos State workers presently faced more hardship to get to work, hence the reason why N30,000 could no more be acceptable.
“Our demand is that no junior worker besides the N50,000 minimum wage should go home with less than N15,000 hazard allowance.”
According to Sessi, the workers were not well remunerated, noting that things have continued to deteriorate.
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