Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Minimum wage: FG, labour’s meeting deadlocked
L–R: Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo); Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Vice-President Namadi Sambo; and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, during a meeting on the new minimum wage, in Abuja... on Monday.
The tripartite meeting between the Federal Government, state governors and representatives of the organised labour over the N18,000 minimum wage ended in a deadlock in Abuja on Monday.
With the development, the three-day warning strike by workers will begin on Wednesday as scheduled, according to organised labour.
“The strike is very much on course. We just ended a meeting with Vice-President, Namadi Sambo. But unfortunately, nothing new was put on the table. So we are fully mobilised for Wednesday,” the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress Committee on National Strike, Mr. Promise Adewusi, told THE PUNCH in Abuja.
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