Organised Labour suspends strike for one week

The Organised Labour has suspended the nationwide strike for a week  to allow  uninterrupted meeting with the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage.

 

The development is coming after Labour leaders had a successful meeting with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, George Akume, and other government officials on Monday and reached a resolution that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was committed to a new minimum wage higher than N60,000.

They equally resolved that the Tripartite Committee would meet every day for the next one week with a view to arriving at an agreeable National Minimum Wage.

Today at a meeting with FG Tripartite Committee scheduled by 10am, Labour suspended its Strike.

With this development, every government and private offices are expected to reopen and function as usual.

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