NLC To Hold Nationwide Protest Tuesday, 8th Jan. 2019

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The Nigeria Labour Congress says it will on Tuesday hold a nationwide
protest to drive its demand for the upward review of the national
minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000.

The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, said in a statement that there would be no strike for now.

Ozo-Eson, therefore, asked members of the public to disregard reports that the strike would begin tomorrow.

The
statement read in part, “It has come to our attention that some
sections of the news media have largely misrepresented our action plan
in reaction to the delay in transmitting the recommendations of the
Tripartite Committee on a new national minimum wage to the National
Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“It should be recalled
that the National Executive Council of the NLC met on December 17 last
year and directed that we hold nationwide mobilisation of workers and
our allies if, by December 31, 2018, the bill on the national minimum
wage has yet to be sent to the National Assembly to be passed as an Act
of Parliament.

“We immediately announced then that on Tuesday,
January 8, 2019, there will be a nationwide mass mobilisation and
protests simultaneously across all states in Nigeria. This does not
translate to a strike.”

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