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The Joint Union Action Committee (JUAC) of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), connected Monday, locked the entranceway of the secretariat successful compliance with infinite concern enactment embarked by the labour union.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress had connected May 31 directed its members to embark connected an indefinite onslaught from June 3.
The action, according to the unions, was implicit the nonaccomplishment of the Federal Government to summation the N60,000 minimum wage it offered to workers and its refusal to reverse the caller summation successful energy tariff.
The President of JUAC, Mrs Rifkatu Iortyer, told NAN successful Abuja, that the committee’s determination to contradict workers entree to the Secretariat was successful compliance with the NLC and TUC directive.
Lortyer explained that JUAC, being portion of the labour unions, has nary prime but to afloat enforce the strike.
“My proposal to FCTA workers is simple: enactment astatine location and beryllium the obedient workers you’ve ever been.
“The onslaught enactment is for the involvement of the Nigerian workers,” she said.
The labour unions had during the May Day solemnisation issued the Federal Government an ultimatum to guarantee that dialog connected a caller nationalist minimum wage was concluded by May 31.
The President of TUC, Festus Osifo, told newsmen that the onslaught had go indispensable arsenic the authorities declined to summation the N60,000 wage it offered connected Friday during the gathering of the Tripartite Committee connected National Minimum Wage.
Osifo besides said that the onslaught was imperative owed to the refusal of the authorities to reverse the hike successful energy tariff.
NAN reports that the NLC confirmed the nationwide onslaught aft a failed gathering with National Assembly leaders.
Inspite of appeals to telephone disconnected the strike, labour leaders importune connected proceeding owed to unresolved minimum wage disputes.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed that the nationwide onslaught acceptable for June 3 volition proceed, pursuing a failed gathering with National Assembly leaders.
The meeting, which aimed to resoluteness the minimum wage dispute, ended without an agreement.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House Speaker Tajuddeen Abbas presided implicit the discussions, which besides included high-ranking authorities officials specified arsenic the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Sen. George Akume, and Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila.
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