{"id":153,"date":"2024-06-01T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=153"},"modified":"2024-06-01T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T07:11:34","slug":"minimum-wage-organized-labour-declares-indefinite-strike-from-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/06\/01\/minimum-wage-organized-labour-declares-indefinite-strike-from-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage: Organized Labour declares indefinite strike from Monday\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: pt serif, sans-serif;\">Minimum wage: Organized Labour declares indefinite strike from Monday\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: pt serif, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: pt serif, sans-serif;\">By George Mgbeleke<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: pt serif, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: pt serif, sans-serif;\">The\u00a0Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have jointly declared an indefinite strike beginning on Monday June 3, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe leaders of the organized Labour explained that the strike has become imperative as the Federal Government has practically refused to increase the N60,000 it offered at the resumption of the tripartite committee meeting in Abuja on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe strike was declared at a joint press conference by NLC President Joe Ajaero and TUC President Festus Osifo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nOsifo stated, \u201cAs you are aware, we had the last meeting preceding today, which was on Tuesday. In that meeting, they (the government) offered N60,000.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They invited us for a meeting today (Friday), and we deliberated on it, thinking they were showing the necessary commitment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cTo our surprise, there was no serious representation from either the Federal Government or the state governors who are supposed to be part of the negotiations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cSo, technically, we felt they have abandoned us because they remained adamant about the N60,000 offer. Not even a kobo was added to what we rightfully rejected.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minimum wage: Organized Labour declares indefinite strike from Monday\u00a0 \u00a0 By George Mgbeleke \u00a0 The\u00a0Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have jointly declared an indefinite strike beginning on Monday June 3, 2024. The leaders of the organized Labour explained that the strike has become imperative as the Federal Government has practically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[98,97,99,96],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-government","tag-labour","tag-negotiation","tag-wage-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}