{"id":177,"date":"2024-06-04T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=177"},"modified":"2024-06-04T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:38:12","slug":"organized-labour-suspends-strike-for-a-week-as-it-intensifies-negotiation-with-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/organized-labour-suspends-strike-for-a-week-as-it-intensifies-negotiation-with-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized Labour suspends strike for a week ……As it intensifies negotiation with FG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Reporter<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to called off the nationwide strike that started on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mr. Festus Osifo, President of Trade Union Congress, announced this on Tuesday in Abuja following a joint virtual extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions. He mentioned that a communiqu\u00e9 would be issued shortly.<\/p>\n

Recall that both unions (TUC and NLC) on Monday commenced an indefinite nationwide strike to express their grievances over the hike in electricity tariffs and the lack of consensus on a new minimum wage.<\/p>\n

This action halted activities in critical sectors of the economy, leading to the closure of schools, businesses, hospitals, and airports. The national grid was shut down, plunging the nation into darkness.<\/p>\n

The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress have agreed to relax the ongoing strike for at least one week.<\/p>\n

Recall that efforts by the leadership of National Assembly to avert the looming nationwide strike by organized Labour on Sunday ended in Deadlock as both government delegation and leadership of labour refused to shift ground.<\/div>\n
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Briefing journalists after the end of the meeting , the President of the Senate , Godswill Akpabio said tremendous appeal was made to the Labour leaders to call off the strike as the National Assembly steps into the matter directly with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.<\/div>\n
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” After about four hours deliberation with leadership of the Organized Labour , we resolved that the Federal Government should re introduced the wage Award of N35, 000 given to all categories of federal workers from October last year to February this year , pending the time the issue of minimum wage is resolved .<\/div>\n
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” We have appealed to the organized labour to shelve the strike action because of the consequences and collateral damage involved .<\/div>\n
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” For example , we cannot at this time allow hospitals to be shut down to save the lives of those on emergencies or aided by oxygen to breathe .<\/div>\n
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” We are very much aware of all the steps taken by the Federal Government and Labour to agree on acceptable minimum wage and very much ready to join in the negotiation by reaching out to President Bola Tinubu.<\/div>\n
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” We believe that leadership of the\u00a0 organized labour after leaving here , will reach out to their entire membership to call of the strike in the interest of all Nigerians ” , he said .<\/div>\n
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Hon Tajudeen Abbas in his own remarks said ”\u00a0 the\u00a0 take home\u00a0 from the meeting were that the federal government would be prevailed upon to re – introduce the N35, 000 wage award pending the time agreement on minimum wage is reached between it and the labour unions .<\/div>\n
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” That leadership of both the Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) and Trade Union Congress ( TUC )\u00a0 , should go and consult with their members\u00a0 on the need to quickly call off the strike in the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians ” .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Details later\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Reporter The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to called off the nationwide strike that started on Monday. Mr. Festus Osifo, President of Trade Union Congress, announced this on Tuesday in Abuja following a joint virtual extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions. He mentioned that a […]<\/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":[112,110,111,105,67],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-government-nass","tag-minimum-wage","tag-organized-labour","tag-strike","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"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=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}