NLC To embark on public strike from 20th of July

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared a three-day general strike across the country with effect from Wednesday, July 20, 2011, to press further its demand for the implementation of the National Minimum Wage.

NLC president, Comrade Abdulwaheed Umar made this known at a press conference organised by the union after a prolonged meeting of its national executive council to deliberate on the federal government’s conditions for the implementation of the national minimum wage.


The NLC president said the NEC had painfully observed that more than three months after the new national minimum wage became law, no government from federal, state to local government and private sector has paid the new wage.
He stated that although many state governments promised to pay, there was no negotiation payment table on which the minimum wage is based, adding that, unfortunately, state governors were allowing their colleagues to hold them to ransom.
“Even the federal government has also fallen foul of the Minimum Wage Law; the attempted decision by the federal government to make the new national minimum wage implementation applicable only to workers on Grade Level 01 to 06 in the federal service is not acceptable to us.
“We observed that the national minimum wage has a national applicability and affects all workers irrespective of sector or grade level. Therefore, both the payment table and the implementation circular presented by the federal government are rejected by the Congress.”

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Posted: at 13-07-2011 06:00 PM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Government, plz pay up, if it is to steal N400m annually as a speaker, it becomes easy, pay them jare

Posted: at 13-07-2011 08:57 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

Government, abeg respect una sef make NLC 2 respect themselves... students wan graduate...

Posted: at 13-07-2011 09:41 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming

This goes to show how shallow, greedy and wicked Nigerian leaders are...  a set of hypocrites.

they re collecting millions monthly for doing nothing yet they find it hard to pay the people doing the real jobs a mare #18,000.

The level of hypocrisy among Nigerians is really baffling.

Posted: at 13-07-2011 11:51 PM (12 years ago) | Hero

infact naija don tire me. Na so so bad news everyday. which kain life be dis?

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Posted: at 14-07-2011 12:33 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Carry on we follow you for back

Posted: at 14-07-2011 07:23 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

nigeriaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, monkey dey work baboon dey chop. heartless n incompetent leaders. bunch of thieve. 

Posted: at 14-07-2011 08:53 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie

make e start earlier jare, i wan go rest

Posted: at 14-07-2011 09:41 AM (12 years ago) | Hero

They should pay this money, no Government in this country is incapable of paying this money.

Posted: at 14-07-2011 11:23 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

nigeria is a garbage,that needs to sell to a recycle company at any cost.

Posted: at 14-07-2011 11:28 AM (12 years ago) | Newbie