Labour Threatens Showdown As Talks On Minimum Wage seems unproductive

Members of the organised labour on Tuesday threatened to paralyse the economy of the country if the federal government remains adamant to offer the Nigerian workers a living wage as demanded during this year’s May Day celebration.

The stern warning was handed to the government shortly after talks on the minimum wage among members of the tripartite committee collapsed —a development that made the meeting to be adjourned “sine die” (indefinitely).

News report explained how the leadership of the organised comprising Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) two weeks ago walked out on the government representatives for offering Nigerian workers what they described as “paltry N48,000”.

A few days after the meeting was deadlocked, the representatives of the government jacked up the minimum wage to the sum of N54,000, members of the two labour centres frowned at it.

A few days after the meeting was deadlocked, the representatives of the government jacked up the minimum wage to the sum of N54,000, members of the two labour centres frowned at it.

At the resumed meeting on Tuesday, our correspondent gathered that representatives of the government rounded up the earlier N54,000 to N60,000 as new minimum wage. The offer, however, could not still halt the meeting from being deadlocked.