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By NAN
03 June 2024 | 2:35 p.m.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterparts connected Monday, unopen down the National Assembly pursuing
A presumption of the Nigerian National Assembly premises. (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON / AFP)The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its Trade Union Congress (TUC) counterparts connected Monday, unopen down the National Assembly pursuing the on-going indefinite strike.
Scores of workers were prevented from gaining entree to the National Assembly complex, leaving astir of them stranded.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the unions blocked the main gross to the entranceway of assembly.
Some of the workers who came arsenic aboriginal arsenic 6:00 a.m. were shocked to observe that the national members were already connected crushed to forestall imaginable entranceway by workers.
NAN reports that immoderate aides to the lawmakers made fruitless efforts to explicate to the members of the national that they were not portion of the strike.
Some of the Aides explained to the national that they could not person joined the strike, and truthful should not beryllium prevented from doing their job.
However, 1 of the members of the national who refused to disclose his sanction said the onslaught affected everybody and insisted.
A contractor who works wrong the assembly analyzable was besides prevented on with his co-workers.
The national members retired of choler told the contractor that they were warring successful the involvement of each workers, portion urging them to amusement knowing of workers’ predicament.
NAN reports that slope officials had a hectic infinitesimal explaining to the national wherefore they should beryllium allowed into the complex, but their mentation fell connected deaf ears.
The labour unions vowed that they would not beryllium allowed into the analyzable until their demands were met.
NAN reports that the unions had issued a June 3 ultimatum to the authorities if it failed to conscionable its request for a caller minimum wage.
As astatine the clip of filing this report, some the authorities and the unions had not agreed connected an acceptable minimum wage.
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