Organized labour warns Buhari, issues fresh conditions on strike

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The organised labour on Tuesday, warned that nothing will deny Nigerian workers any kobo from the N30,000 agreed by the constitutionally empowered National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee, as contained, in its report already submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari.

To this end, the United Labour Congress (ULC) called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to unfailingly transmit a bill containing N30,000 minimum wage, which is the product of collective bargaining in the Tripartite Committee report to the National Assembly.

Following the approval of N27,000 by the National Council of State as the new national minimum wage on Tuesday, the ULC and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), swiftly rejected the figure, saying that the Council of State lacks the constitutional power to approve or recommend minimum wage.

ULC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, says the Council of State might have been playing their advisory role, thus only advising President Buhari and not recommending a minimum wage.

Comrade Ajaero said the Council of state has no legal power to approve or recommend minimum wage.

Speaking with The Tribune, the ULC President said: “The Council of State does not have any constitutional power to approve or recommend minimum wage.

“So, if the Council of State is talking about N27,000 or N30,000, they are just being advisory. The Council of State cannot recommend minimum wage. So, we are still expecting Mr President to transmit the product of the collective bargaining in the Tripartite Committee report to the National Assembly tomorrow.”

He added: “There is nothing to be done to deny Nigerian workers any kobo from the N30,000 agreed by the Tripartite group. Maybe the Council of State advised him. That should be advisory.”

Rising from its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Tuesday in Lagos, the statement said the ULC “rejects in its entirety the proposed N27,000 which is contrary to the N30,000 agreed by the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Committee and which has since been submitted to the President.”

The statement, also signed by Comrade Ajaero, said: “We state that the National Council of State in a National Minimum Wage setting mechanism is an aberration. It is also important that we make it clear that the National Council of State does not have powers to approve, confirm, affirm or accept any figure as the new National Minimum Wage.

“What they have pretended to have done is therefore without any force of Law, standards or other known practices of Industrial Relations the world over.”