NLC, TUC minimum wage demand will hike inflation, unemployment — NCCC

The North Central Citizens Council (NCCC) has condemned the agitation of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its counterpart, the Trade Union Congress (TUC), accusing the unions of turning a unsighted oculus to the communal man’s plight.

The NCCC described the labour unions’ demands arsenic “unpatriotic” and “unrealistic,” considering the existent economical challenges facing the country.

In a connection by its Coordinator, Comrade Mohammed Eneji, the NCCC urged the labour unions to see the imaginable consequences of their actions connected the nation’s system and the payment of Nigerian citizens.

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He said: “The enactment of the NCCC termed the efforts by the labour unions successful forcing the national authorities to succumb to their presumption successful the dialog process arsenic inhuman and selfish arsenic this volition person an adverse effect connected the communal antheral who doesn’t gain wage oregon wage.

“If these negotiations for an summation successful the minimum wage of workers are jacked up without considering the adverse effect it volition person connected the mean citizens of the country, particularly those surviving successful the agrarian areas, past the efforts volition beryllium counterproductive and useless.

“Many authorities governors are inactive battling to wage the N30,000 minimum wage arsenic it was till date, however past bash we deliberation that the governments some astatine authorities and section authorities levels volition beryllium capable to wage the minimum wage of N60,000 and above?

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“The labour question is evidently not putting Nigeria and Nigerians archetypal successful this process of the dialog and arsenic such, NCCC is demanding that the labour reappraisal and see the plight of the larger percent of Nigerians who are not nether the payroll of the authorities nor the backstage sector, arsenic this percent of Nigerians represent the largest colonisation of workforce successful Nigeria compared to those nether authorities who are little than 1% of the full Nigerian population.

“We besides request that the Labor beryllium flexible by looking astatine the bigger representation arsenic this request of theirs volition further heighten the ostentation complaint successful the state and besides summation the unemployment rate, for arsenic a effect of the summation successful the minimum wage, galore multinationals and authorities agencies astatine authorities level May effect into downsizing the unit connected their payroll owed to inability to wage the caller wage.

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“The cumulative effect volition exacerbate the problems alternatively of addressing it. The improvement expected by the states and section authorities volition beryllium successful crisp diminution erstwhile states marque usage of 60 to 70% of gross generated to wage salaries of workers portion the infrastructure and the system of specified states is near successful jeopardy.”