Minimum wage: Labour’ll reject little addition to N60,000 offer – TUC president

The Organised Labour on Tuesday vowed that it would reject little addition to the N60,000 new minimum wage offered by the federal government.

The President of the Trade Union Congress(TUC), Festus Osifo disclosed this on Tuesday while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme.

Osifo said: “We also told them that it’s not that we’d get to the table and you start adding N1, N2, N3,000 as you were doing and we got some good guarantees here and there that they would do something good.”

TUC and the Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC) had on Monday declared an indefinite strike demanding for a better wage for workers.

The organised labour is demanding for N494,000, while the Nigerian government is proposing N60,000.

After a meeting between the government and labour, the strike was suspended, while President Bola Tinubu has directed the Finance Minister, Wale Edun, to come up with the financial implications of a new minimum wage within 48 hours.