The Nigeria Labour Congress ( NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have been called upon to ensure that they negotiate with the various government and come up with reasonable minimum wage that would address the present economic predicaments facing them
Making this assertion, while speaking with press, a former chairman of Radio and Television Workers Union (RATAWU) Kano state chapter, Alhaji. Musa Muhammad, charged the two labour leaders not to allow a divide and rule from governments to cause disunity and thereby prevent them for fighting for positive goals for their respective workers
According to him, “The entire workers in the country were having their greatest hope in the two Unions for a positive negotiation on the minimum wage, hence the need for the two bloc to team up and harmonise their demands in the interest of Nigeria’s workers
“The entire general workers who gave them their mandate, by electing them at their respective leaders, are not elected to fight for their personal and individual interest, but to see on how they can collectively pursue the course and general wellbeing of workers
Alhaji Mohammad, who reminded the two organisations to keep in mind that the workers in the country were passing through untold hardship as a result of the withdrawal of fuel subsidies, which has caused a skyrocketing price of goods and services, hence the need for both of them to come out with reasonable. minimum wage to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.
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He, however, hinted that the government decided in 2015 to create another organ of workers from the then NLC, in an attempt to cause a divide and rule between the original NLC that were broken to two with the aim of satisfying their ego and causing disunity
Alhaji. Muhammad further disclosed that the two organisations should have it in their mind that there is no different market for either the NLC or the TUC and present suffering facing the entire workforce has no tribal mark to differentiate which organisation belongs
When asked as a veteran labour leader, he envisages a minimum wage, Alhaji Mohammad said he cannot decide for the two blocs what the minimum wage should be. But that is another reason he is calling on them. to harmonise their demand and came out with a reasonable amount as a minimum wage.
