The National Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their nationwide strike for five days following a meeting with the federal government on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is according to a report by Channel TV on Tuesday, confirming the suspension of the strike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The organized labour met on Tuesday after their submission to the federal government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nairametrics had earlier reported a meeting between labour leaders and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume, along with other government officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meeting, held on Monday, concluded with a resolution affirming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s commitment to establishing a new minimum wage that exceeds N60,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They equally resolved that the Tripartite Committee would meet every day for the next one week to arrive at an agreeable National Minimum Wage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this development, every government and private office are expected to reopen and function as usual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agreement stated: \u201cThe President of Nigeria, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, is committed to establishing a National Minimum Wage higher than N60,000; and the Tripartite Committee will convene daily for the next week to finalise an agreeable National Minimum Wage.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The organised labour also agreed to \u201cimmediately hold meetings of its organs to consider this new offer, and no worker would face victimisation as a consequence of participating in the industrial action.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) declared an indefinite strike on Monday, virtually shutting down all economic activities in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The organized labour decided to embark on industrial action after the negotiations between them and the government over the minimum wage of workers came to an impasse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The union claimed that a new minimum wage is long overdue, and due to the incessant soaring of the price of goods and services, the government should upwardly review the wages of workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Accordingly, NLC and TUC initially proposed a new wage of N615,000 to the federal government. However, after many negotiations and deliberations, the union settled for the sum of N419,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On its part, however, the government insisted on paying the sum of N60,000, adding that the proposed amount from the labour union is unsustainable.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called off their nationwide strike for five days following a meeting with the federal government on Monday. This is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_rishi_post_view_count":146},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","rishi-post"],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","comments_count":"0","yoast_head":"\nBackstory <\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n