Organised Labour has vowed to reject what it calls a “starvation wage” as the new minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
Chris Onyeka, an Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), who spoke to Newsmen on Monday insisted on ₦250,000, labour’s latest demand at the last meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage on Friday – as the living wage for an average Nigerian worker.
He said labour won’t accept government’s offer of ₦62,000 nor the ₦100,000 being proposed by some individuals and economists.
The Labour executive maintained that the ₦250,000 demand was enough concession to the government and other stakeholders involved in negotiations .
He said the one-week grace period given to the Federal Government last Tuesday, June 4, 2024, would expire by the midnight today and should the Federal Government and National Assembly fail to act on the demands of workers, the organs of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) would meet to decide on the resumption of the nationwide industrial action relaxed last week.