The organized Labour comprising, the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have announced a temporary suspension of the ongoing strike action, putting the struggle for a new minimum wage on hold for one week.
The TUC president Festus Osifo who confirmed this in Abuja this Tuesday after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions said “A joint NEC meeting of TUC/NLC has approved to relax the industrial action for one week with immediate effect,”
In his reaction, Francis Akinjorin, the Deputy National Secretary of the Association of Air Transport Association of Nigeria declared “We are ‘relaxing’ the action for one week and not suspending the strike, to give FG the one-week grace and test their sincerity
This development followed a joint extraordinary National Executive Council (NEC) meeting convened by the two labour centres to determine the fate of the strike, and was jointly presided over by the President of NLC, Joe Ajaero, and his TUC counterpart, Festus Osifo.
Hanto Daily News reports that after the resolution to halt the ongoing strike for a one-week at the end of their meeting at about 11.300 am, the organised labour then proceeded to the Nicon luxury hotel to continue its engagement with the tripartite committee.
Both unions embarked on strike on Monday to register their grievances over the hike in electricity tariff and lack of consensus on a new minimum wage, a development that grounded activities in critical sectors of the economy with schools, businesses, hospitals, airports and the national grid, all shut down.
