N615,000 minimum wage proposal negotiable -TUC

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has said the projected minimum wage of 615,000 naira is unfastened to dialog from the government.

President of the TUC, Festus Osifo made this connection successful an interrogation connected Arise Television connected Thursday, DAILY POST reports.

According to him, the TUC is unfastened to conversations and bargaining with the government.

“The magnitude that we enactment forward, successful reality, we besides recognize from organized labour, erstwhile you are going for corporate bargaining agreement, you would bash your study, you cognize what is practically feasible and possible, you’ve done your analysis. What we person enactment guardant is what we deliberation volition beryllium the surviving wage and we person justification for that.

“But it is simply a negotiation. When you spell into negotiations, we are besides expecting a counteroffer from the authorities side. They volition archer america nary we tin not wage 615,000, possibly what we could pay, let’s presume is 300,000 naira. We participate into conversations. We are unfastened to having conversations.

“We are not forcing our presumption that the authorities indispensable implement, either instrumentality it oregon permission it, no. But it is simply a negotiation, truthful we bring each our dialog experts and tools to the table, we effort to marque the authorities recognize wherefore they indispensable marque the workers a priority,” helium said.

Osifor further stated that careless of the reassurances of assorted authorities governors to look into the matter, a batch of states successful Nigeria are inactive struggling to wage the existent minimum wage for workers.

He said, “Every worker’s day, you person governors coming to the podium and making large announcements, but erstwhile you permission there, however galore of these announcements are sought through? How galore of them bash spot the airy of the day?

“When you perceive to those comments, you would beryllium reasoning that yes you person a batch of large statements coming up. Regrettably, implicit the years, we conscionable spot this arsenic large rhetoric. I’m atrocious to accidental but that is what it is. It’s conscionable similar a dependable bite.”