Minimum Wage: Labour’s one week strike suspension expires

 

There is high apprehension whether organised labour will return to strike after the expiration of its seven days strike suspension over disagreements on a new national minimum wage.

Meanwhile, organised labour and the organised private sector have disagreed on no work no pay and withdrawal of service in the middle of a dispute.

The organised labour in Nigeria may have doused tension among citizens of a possible and immediate return to strike after the expiration of its seven days strike suspension.

This is the reaction of the Nigeria Labour Congress President, Joe Ajaero, on the sidelines of the ongoing International Labour Congress in Geneva.

Ajaero says President Bola Tinubu will have some time to determine N250,000 as National minimum wage or N62,000 as proposed by both government and organised private sector.

Ajaero however did not agree with the Director General of the Nigerian Employers Consultative Association, Smart Wale, who insist, employers have a right to enforce no work no pay, should workers embark on strike on an ongoing dispute.

On the issue of which proposal the president will approve between N62,000 and N250,000, the employers association said it agreed with labour on N30,000 in 2019, disagreeing with government on N24,000, but organised labour thinks otherwise.

At the moment, all eyes are on President Bola Tinubu, whether or not, he will side with the workers or simply remain with the employers and be prepared for whatever consequences which may follow.