The organized labor has announced its decision to suspend their one-day old strike in protests of the new minimum wage with immediate effect.
It would be recalled that the National Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC declared an indefinite strike on Monday June 3rd, 2024, after been engrossed in a meeting with the federal government tripartite committee to negotiate the new minimum wage.
The federal government had put forward the sum of N60,000 which was way off the N494,000 demanded by the Labour union.
Addressing the press on Tuesday, May 4, NLC chairman Joe Ajaero revealed that after a positive dialogue with the committee the union is relaxing the strike for one week giving the federal government time to come good on their promises.
He said:
“We are ‘relaxing’ the action for one week and not suspending the strike, to give FG the one week grace and test their sincerity.”
