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Tensions flared in Abuja on Thursday as members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) shut down the office of FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, demanding the immediate implementation of a N70,000 minimum wage for Area Council staff, teachers, and health workers. The protest began at Labour House, with workers marching in large numbers to the minister’s…
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The Federal Government yesterday engaged the Labour over the recent petrol price hike. The meeting was held at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), with representatives from both government and Labour in attendance. Rextun City Updates gathered that the meeting discussed the consequential adjustment of the new minimum wage,…
The Organized Labour has insisted that it will not accept any of N62,000 or N100,000 “starvation wage” as the minimum wage for Nigerian workers. It insisted on N250,000, being its latest demand at the last meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage on Friday, as the living wage for an average Nigerian worker. This…
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By Oyez Olatunde Rex The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, on Monday disclosed that the “labour union has shut down” the national grid, precipitating a blackout nationwide. This development is coming as the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, commenced the earlier declared indefinite nationwide strike on Monday.Organized Labour…
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The president of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Festus Osifo, has expressed the reasons the organized labour rejected the fresh ₦60,000 offered by the federal government as the minimum wage for workers. The organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for the third time on Tuesday,…
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• Declares open NLC’s 18th Harmattan School in Ilorin • Kwara Gov is labour-friendly in policies, actions: NLC President, labour leaders Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday called on the labour unions in Nigeria to always exploit dialogue and mutual understanding in pressing home their demands from governments, saying this will foster industrial harmony…
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