Despite appeals from the federal government with reasons advanced for its inability to pay N494, 000 minimum wage, the organised labour has mobilised its members to begin indefinite strike on Monday.
Unions affiliated to both the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, have been issuing directives to their members to shut down.
The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN have directed their members to stop operations from midnight of Sunday, June 2.
Others are the medical and health workers Union of Nigeria, the College of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, and the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, among others.
Meanwhile, in a statement released on saturday, June 1, the West African examinations Council, WAEC says the strike will not affect the ongoing senior secondary certificate examination, SSCE.
The federal government has been appealing to organised labour to shelve the strike, noting its adverse effect on the already struggling economy.
In the last meeting of the minimum wage tripartite committee, the federal government stopped at N60,000 as the amount for a new national minimum wage, while organised labour insist on N494,000, an amount which the government has described as outrageous.
The government has asked organised labour to be reasonable in its demands, as president Bola Tinubu would not want any situation that will result in job loss.
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