TUE JUNE 13 2024-theGBJournal|The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has suggested that the president’s advisers lied to him regarding the outcome of the ongoing national minimum wage negotiation process, insisting that there was no agreement reached between Labour and the Federal Government.
The NLC’s statement contradicts President Bola Tinubu’s announcement yesterday, during his Democracy Day speech, that the Federal Government and the Organized Labour has reached an agreement on a new national minimum wage having ”negotiated in good faith and with open arms.”
”There was none and it is important that we let the President, Nigerians and other national stake holders understand this immediately to avoid a mix up in the ongoing conversation around the national minimum wage,” the NLC said.
The NLC leadership also affirmed that they have also not seen a copy of the document submitted to him (President Tinubu), and ”will not accept any doctored document.
The NLC also disputed the claim by President Tinubu that ”no one was threatened.”
”The President’s advisers obviously did not tell him the truth that the leaders of the trade unions were intimidated and harassed. It is important that Mr. President understands that we were threatened severally by his operatives perhaps without his consent,” NLC said in a the heavily worded statement released yesterday.
The NLC equally recalled how ”fully armed soldiers” surrounded them while they were in a negotiation with the Government.
NLC said most of the President’s men are working round the clock to set up the leadership of the Congress and the Trade Unions while insisting that they also ”never agreed on a 5-year duration of the minimum wage Act.”
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