Presidency Reacts To NLC, TUC Strike, Claims Many Participants Are Labour Party Supporters

• Presidency Reacts To NLC, TUC Strike, Claims Many Participants Are Labour Party Supporters.

• The strike is due to the Federal Government’s refusal to increase the proposed minimum wage.

• The NLC and TUC have been negotiating for a new national minimum wage.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Presidency has responded to the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).

This online media platform reports that the organized labour, comprising the two major bodies, began their industrial action today, with many affiliates shutting down their workplaces in compliance.

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The strike action is in response to the Federal Government’s refusal to increase the proposed minimum wage beyond N60,000.

The leadership of the NLC and TUC have been negotiating with the incumbent government for a new national minimum wage, noting that the current wage award expired in April 2024.

Despite the government’s offer of N60,000, the unions have insisted on a higher wage of N494,000, reduced from their initial demand of N497,000.

Reacting in a social media post on Monday, President Bola Tinubu‘s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said it was saddening that Labour could go to this extreme over the proposed minimum wage.

He asserted that many of the affiliates of the NLC and TUC are staunch supporters of the Labour Party (LP), the third force in the 2023 general election.

Onanuga asserted further that the labour is playing politics by other means, thereby, harming the Nigerian people they claimed to be fighting for.

“It’s saddening that Labour could go to this extreme. But it is not surprising to the perceptive minds. Labour is harming the Nigerian people they claim to be fighting for.

“Today, many sick Nigerians cannot access medical care at government hospitals. Not even those with critical medical conditions. It appears labour is playing politics by other means. Many of the affiliates of the two central unions, NLC and TUC, are members and supporters of the Labour Party. They logically bear ill will and grudges against the Tinubu administration.

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“Otherwise, the issue they claim to be fighting for cannot be resolved by blackmail or sabotage, they cannot even be resolved by the Federal Government unilaterally, the Labour leaders will still have to return to the negotiating table.”

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