This came as labour leaders in the power sector directed Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers to shut down the sector tomorrow for a one-day warning strike over alleged Government insincere approach to power sector problems and unwillingness to effect the agreed payment of 50 per cent salary increase to workers.
Vanguard gathered that the May meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC, of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, gave the leaders of NLC at the state level authority to enter into and conclude negotiations with the state governments within one month on the implementation of the new wage.
According to Congress directives, the state should declare industrial action should their June salaries fail to reflect the new wage increase. In line with the NLC leadership’s directives, Ondo State workers Thursday declared an indefinite strike when the state government said it could only pay N13.000 as against the N18,000.
However, the strike was suspended on Saturday after labour leaders and government agreed on N14,000 pending the outcome of the new revenue allocation formula debate.
Oyo State workers would have commenced their strike but for the intervention of some elders and leaders of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state.
Governor Adams Oshiohmohle of Edo State has assured the state workers that his government will pay the new wage.
Last Wednesday, the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, and Rivers State governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who had earlier promised to pay the wage, foreclosed immediate payment of the new wage until there is a new revenue allocation formula.
The governors, who had tied their payment of the new wage to a new revenue allocation formula, added another conditionality which is the removal of subsidy on petrol and money generated from the subsidy removal to be used to fund the N18,000 wage increase.
Investigations revealed unless there is contrary directives from the leaders of NLC who will hold a retreat in Tinapa, Cross Rivers State, between today and tomorrow the nation is set to witness a harvest of industrial unrest over the N18.000 new minimum wage.
Read more @ http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/06/minimum-wage-strike-begins-nationwide-next-week/
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