Labour issues final ultimatum to Abia Govt, commences indefinite strike July 15
The organized labour in Abia State has served a final ultimatum to the state government over alleged non-payment of N30,000 minimum wage and N35,000 palliative award by the state government. The threat by the workers to go on strike is…
Labour to govs on minimum wage: Retrieve Nigeria from state of resentment, misery
The Organized Labour has warned some governors not to plunge the country into a state of resentment, misery and impoverishment through wrong pieces of advice to President Bola Tinubu. It also reiterated that the position taken by President Tinubu on…
Labour Suspends Planned Protest Over Police Presence At Rivers LGAs
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Rivers State have suspended their planned protest over the continued police blockade at local government area secretariats. Chairmen of the labour centres said the suspension followed reports of…
Labour rejects FG’s fresh N60,000 minimum wage offer, insists on N494,000
The Federal Government has added a sum of N3,000 to its initially proposed N57,000 minimum wage, making it the sum of N60,000 proposed on Tuesday during a meeting of the tripartite committee on minimum wage in Abuja. Organised labour, comprising…
Minimum wage: NLC, TUC mobilise CSOs, others for strike
Leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterparts have put the civil society allies on notice over their planned industrial action should government fail to reverse the hike in electricity tariff and…
Minimum Wage: Why we may not accept N100,000 — Organised labour
Organised Labour has told the Federal Government to perish any thought of offering N100,000 as the new minimum wage. It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the…
NLC rejects cybersecurity levy, says it’s more burden, pressure on workers, businesses
Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has rejected the newly-introduced cybersecurity levy by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, demanding its immediate withdrawal. NLC in a statement by its President, Joe Ajaero, lamented that the levy is another anti-people policy of the…
LP kicks as NLC meets on Abure’s fate today
Stakeholders of the Nigeria Labour Congress will today meet to take a decision on the leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party and the return of Julius Abure as the party’s National Chairman. Among other things, The PUNCH gathered that a…
NLC shuts LP secretariat, demands Abure’s sacking
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday stormed the national secretariat of the Labour Party in Abuja to protest the party’s national convention planned for the end of this month. The congress also demanded the sacking of the National Chairman of…
Minimum wage: NLC, TUC split, want different pay in zones
LAGOS — Organised Labour was divided, yesterday, over what the new minimum wage should be. The lack of unanimity was evident at public hearings organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage, TCNMW, across four of the six geo-political…