FG, Before Labour Strikes... 2moro
The ultimatum given the Federal government by both the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) over the implementation of a new minimum wage will expire midnight, today.
With the firmness of the Organised Labour and their insistence to the above, whose failure would lead to a massive nationwide industrial action, the Federal government yet appears not to give a hoot as to be bothered.
It's unfortunate to recall of how the federal government has for long, in the course of continuous marathon negotiations, shown a wriggling but obvious coldness to the issues raised by Organised Labour, especially the core agendum of increment in the minimum wage.
In a present economy saddled with the reality of hyper-inflation, which has sparked an increas in the cost of living, the strength of the existing minimum wage has considerably been mulled.
N18000 as a monthly pay would translate as a Nigerian worker, more probably with a family not been able to get for household a bag of rice. And the woe is that this is in an economy where everything, even water, beyond reach.
As the ultimatum by labour ends today, it would be conscionable on the part of government to use the little time remaining to reconsider its stand on this issue and reverse on its obstinacy.
It must and should see reason with Labour and understand how pathetic and undignifying it is that while political class stash money in millions as salary, the engines of the economy go home literally hungry.
The federal government must see the reality of the discordance between the Nigeria of today and the ability of a meagre, miserable N18,000 withstanding, for the average worker, the associated challenges it flaunts.
With the firmness of the Organised Labour and their insistence to the above, whose failure would lead to a massive nationwide industrial action, the Federal government yet appears not to give a hoot as to be bothered.
It's unfortunate to recall of how the federal government has for long, in the course of continuous marathon negotiations, shown a wriggling but obvious coldness to the issues raised by Organised Labour, especially the core agendum of increment in the minimum wage.
In a present economy saddled with the reality of hyper-inflation, which has sparked an increas in the cost of living, the strength of the existing minimum wage has considerably been mulled.
N18000 as a monthly pay would translate as a Nigerian worker, more probably with a family not been able to get for household a bag of rice. And the woe is that this is in an economy where everything, even water, beyond reach.
As the ultimatum by labour ends today, it would be conscionable on the part of government to use the little time remaining to reconsider its stand on this issue and reverse on its obstinacy.
It must and should see reason with Labour and understand how pathetic and undignifying it is that while political class stash money in millions as salary, the engines of the economy go home literally hungry.
The federal government must see the reality of the discordance between the Nigeria of today and the ability of a meagre, miserable N18,000 withstanding, for the average worker, the associated challenges it flaunts.
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