- He said the government assured the organised labour that whatever will be added to the N60,000 will be sensible and dignifying
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has said the upward review of the N60,000 new minimum wage offer promised by the federal government must result in a significant improvement in the take-home pay of Nigerian workers.
The congress said it will flatly reject a paltry addition to the N60,000.
TUC President Festus Osifo made this known on Tuesday while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.
He said the government assured the organised labour that whatever will be added to the N60,000 will be, reasonable sensible and dignifying.
According to Osifo: “We also told them that it’s not that we’d get to the table and you start adding N1, N2, N3,000 as you were doing and we got some good guarantees here and there that they would do something good.”
TUC and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, had declared an indefinite strike on Monday to demand a better wage for workers.
The organised labour demanded N494,000, while the Nigerian government proposed N60,000.
After a meeting between the government and labour, the strike was called off while President Bola Tinubu ordered the Finance Minister, Wale Edun, to come up with the financial implications of a new minimum wage within 48 hours