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Minimum wage: We cannot be intimidated – Labour tells Governors
The Nigeria Labour Congress has condemned threat by the Nigeria Governors Forum, to sack workers if the new national minimum wage of N 30 , 000 is implemented.
Mr Ayuba Wabba , NLC President , in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja , said the threat was not new .
Wabba was reacting to the statement made by the Chairman of NGF , Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari , governor of Zamfara ,
threatening to sack workers on the account of the new national minimum wage of N 30 , 000 .
He said that the process of negotiation by the tripartite social partners for a new wage has ended and a new National Minimum Wage of N 30 , 000 agreed upon by the government, labour and employers in the private sector has emerged .
According to Wabba , the threat to sack workers is not new in the struggle for review of the national minimum wage .
“ Therefore , the current one by the governor of Zamfara cannot be used to intimidate labour .
“ The consequences of workers retrenchment are too grievous for any political office holder truly elected by the people to contemplate .
“ Few political office holders are bent on enslaving Nigerian workers with peanuts mislabeled as salaries.
“ We urge such elected public officials to subject their humongous salaries and allowances , reputed to be among the highest in the world to public perusal .
“ Pro rata with the minimum wage they want to force down the throats of Nigerian workers , ‘’ he said .
Wabba urged each of the state governor to go to their respective state and inform workers of their individual positions on the new national minimum wage of N 30 , 000 .
The NLC president further urged workers to remain steadfast and firm on their right to decent wages and improved living conditions .
“ To the oppressors , we have only one answer for you , we will never sleep on our rights .
“ We hereby reiterate our directive to Nigerian workers to vote out any politician or political party that refuses to pay the new national minimum wage of N 30 , 000 .
“ We shall continue to consolidate our efforts to strengthen already existing platforms and structures to give teeth to our resolve to vote out anti -labour governors and politicians in the forthcoming 2019 general election , ” Wabba said .
He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to speedily present to the National Assembly the bill on the National Minimum Wage for appropriate amendment and implementation .
( NAN )
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