Labour’ll reject little addition to N60,000 minimum wage offer – TUC boss
The organised labour has vowed to reject any little addition to the ₦60,000 offer by the tripartite committee on the new minimum wage.
The President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, made this known on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Tuesday.
The PUNCH reports that organised labour comprising the TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress suspended its industrial action which started on Monday after reaching an agreement with the Federal Government.
The government promised that President Bola Tinubu is committed to a minimum wage more that the N60,000 earlier offered.
When asked whether labour would accept a few thousand naira additions to the offer, the TUC boss said, “No, we also told them that it’s not that we’d get to the table and you start adding ₦1, ₦2, ₦3,000 as you were doing and we got some good guarantees here and there that they would do something good.”
Osifo added that labour is not fixated on ₦494,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country but the tripartite committee must show seriousness and offer workers something economically realistic in tandem with current inflationary pressures.
Though the union leader refused to mention a specific amount, he said the new minimum wage must be equal in purchasing power to the value of ₦30,000 in 2019 and ₦18,000 in 2014.
