BREAKING (UPDATE): NLC/TUC SUSPENDS NATIONWIDE STRIKE
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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have suspended their industrial actionover a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff – for one week.
The TUC president Festus Osifo confirmed this in Abuja on Tuesday after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions.
“A joint NEC meeting of TUC/NLC has approved to relax the industrial action for one week with immediate effect,” Osifo said.
The TUC president Festus Osifo said this on Tuesday in Abuja after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions.
A communique will be issued shortly, the labour chief said.
Both unions downed tools on Monday to register their grievances over the hike in electricity tariff and lack of consensus on a new minimum wage.
The development ground activities in critical sectors of the economy with schools, businesses, hospitals, and airports shut. The national grid was also shut down, throwing the nation into darkness.
More details to follow…
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