Nigerian workers on Monday threatened to embark on fresh strike following the refusal of the Federal Government to implement the new national minimum wage.
Already, eight industrial unions in the public services of the federal and 36 state governments under the aegis of the Trade Union Side of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council said it “has commenced mobilization of its members nationwide to prepare them for the next line of action.”
The statement reads: “The government has a predetermined position and only called labour in to rubberstamp its hidden agenda. With this turn of event, it is quite clear now that some fifth columnists in this administration are hell-bent on pushing President Muhammadu Buhari to enter into a collision course with millions of Nigerian workers in the Public Service. This is very sad.
“This is why the eight trade unions in the public service have resolved that enough is enough and that if the Federal Government fails to call its officials to order and direct them to negotiate openly the issue of consequential adjustment arising from the new national minimum wage, millions of workers at the Federal and 36 States public services will have no other alternative than to take some necessary trade union actions to seek redress. The time for President Buhari to act is now.
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