Members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria have stopped the availability of water to the National Assembly in compliance with the continuing indefinite strike initiated by the organised labour.
PASAN which is beneath the Nigeria Labour Congress briefly suspended electrical energy and water provide to the 2 buildings accommodating the Senate and the House of Representatives, together with different facilities throughout the National Assembly compound.
Recall that the NLC and TUC had given a May 31, 2024 ultimatum on the brand new minimal wage.
On Tuesday, the Federal Government and organised labour held a gathering however broke down after the federal government and organised personal sector raised their affords to N60,000.
The authorities added N3,000 to its preliminary supply of N57,000 proposed final week, taking the whole determine to N60,000.
This was dismissed by labour on the assembly.
The labour union once more lowered its demand by eradicating N3,000 from the N497,000 it proposed final week, pegging the brand new proposal at N494,000.
Reaching no consensus, the duo held one other assembly on Friday.
The talks additionally hit a brick wall when the federal government did not shift grounds on the N60,000 it proposed over the past assembly.
Following the assembly, the NLC declared a nationwide indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s refusal to boost the proposed minimal wage from N60,000.
The strike commenced on Monday (at the moment).https://punchng.com/breakingminimum-wage-labour-begins-nationwide-strike-monday/
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero who declared the strike stated the assembly with the federal authorities demonstrated the unseriousness and obvious contempt with which the Nigerian state holds the calls for of Nigerian staff and folks.
“No governor was present and ministers absent except the Minister of State for Labour and Employment who doubles as a conciliator. There was none present on the side of the government with the appropriate authority to commit them to any outcome; in essence, the government abandoned the meeting. We consider this disdainful and shows a lack of commitment to a successful National Minimum Wage negotiation exercise,” he stated.