The Nigeria Labour Congress and Trades Union Congress has suspended its proposed nationwide indefinite strike for 30 days, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government.
This resolution was reached after a deliberation that lasted for over five hours at the Chief of Staff Conference Room of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday, October 3.
The outcome of the meeting was disclosed to the state house correspondents by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong.
He said, “The NLC and TUC accept to suspend for 30 days the planned Indefinite Nationwide strike scheduled to begin, Tuesday, the 3rd of October, 2023.”
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 they would revisit the agreement if the FG fails to fulfil their demands.
Recall that the Federal Government had promised to grant a wage award of N35,000 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 agreement further read in part, “A minimum wage committee shall be inaugurated within one month from the date of this agreement.
“Federal Government accepts to vote N100 billion for the provision of high capacity CNG buses for mass transit in Nigeria. Provisions are also being made for initial 55,000 CNG conversion kits to kick start an auto gas conversion programme, whilst work is ongoing on state-of-the-art CNG stations nationwide. The rollout aims to commence by November with pilots across 10 campuses nationwide.
“The Federal Government should urge state government through the National Economic Council and Governors Forum to implement wage award for their workers. Similar consideration should also be given to local government and private sector workers. A joint visitation will be made to the refineries to ascertain their rehabilitation status.”
