- Pix above(r-l): PBAT and OrganisedLabour
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The Organised Labour unions have suspended their planned nationwide indefinite strike action for the next one month.
This was contained in a Memorandum of Understanding signed on Monday night by the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, and General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja; as well as the TUC President, Festus Osifo, and Secretary General, Nuhu Toro.
The three-page document was also signed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong; Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Dr Nkeiruka Onyejeocha; and Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris.
Lalong said the memorandum shall be filed with the relevant court of competent jurisdiction within one week as consent judgment by the Federal Government.
However, the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, said the unions would revisit the agreement if the FG failed to fulfill their demands.
“The NLC and TUC accept to suspend for 30 days the planned Indefinite nationwide strike scheduled to begin, Tuesday, the 3rd of October, 2023,” the MoU reads in part.
“The Federal Government grants a wage award of N35,000 (thirty-five thousand Naira) only to all Federal Government workers beginning from the month of September pending when a new national minimum wage is expected to have
been signed into law.”
The decisions come at the end of an hours-long meeting between the Federal Government, NLC, and the TUC on Monday night.
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This is to ensure it does not run foul of the far-reaching agreement made at the end of the hours-long tortuous deliberations, Presidency sources said./SHARE THIS
