He said the 2018 budget at present cannot accommodate the proposed minimum wage by the Nigeria Labour Congress.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Nigeria Labour Congress in the state had on Wednesday called out workers on a three-day warning strike in solidarity with their colleagues owed arrears of salaries.
The NCSU Delegate Conference was theme: “New National Minimum Wage, Bargaining with Reactionary Employers’’.
TheBay directive came in a statement jointly signed by Kofo Ogundeji, NLC State Secretary, Falegbe Mayowa, TUC State Secretary and Olabode Akinfenwa, JNC Assistant State Secretary.
El-Rufa’i stated this while responding to questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at Aso Rock, Abuja, on Friday.
Wabba, who led thousands of workers to Government House, Kaduna, said the union would not back down in its opposition to the sack of 36,000 workers by Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that heavily armed security personnel were stationed at the NLC headquarters along Independence Way and strategic areas of the metropolis while others were patrolling the town.
An official of the Ebonyi State chapter of the congress made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abakaliki.
The NLC gave the damning verdict on President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress-led government in its New Year Message, signed by its President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the labour unions, led by the state Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Jacob Adekomi, agreed to call off the strike after the state government acceded to some of their demands and a new Memorandum of Understanding signed.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the union leaders and some of their members arrived at the secretariat as early as 6am to ensure that no worker resumed work.
Jacob Adekomi, the Chairman of the Osun State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, gave the directive on Friday at a joint news conference of labour unions in Osogbo.
Bola Oyebanji, the Commissioner for Finance, announced refund to newsmen in Osogbo
Wabba made the call at a two-day public hearing organised by House of Representatives Committee on Housing.
He said the review of pension was long overdue, saying Federal and State government had been adhering to the constitutional provision.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government on Tuesday banned the operations of commercial tricycle in Owerri following the expiration of the deadline given to them
The approval of the Christmas bonus followed a meeting between the leadership of the Organized Labour in the state and the Council held at the Government House, Enugu.
The Federal Government has inaugurated a 30-man Tripartite Committee for negotiation of new national minimum wage for workers in the country
The state government clarified the status of its indebtedness to labour in a statement issued by Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the Commissioner for Information
In a statement on Thursday in Abuja, the President of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said the action of the state government was illegal