Labour Threatens Nationwide Strike Over Minimum Wage Review

The organised labour has threatened a nationwide strike, if the government fails to begin process of reviewing the workers’ minimum wage.

It said workers are hungry and legitimately angry.

The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), an affiliate member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), issued the threat in Kaduna yesterday.

Addressing reporters with NUTGTWN National President Comrade John Adaji, the union’s General Secretary and Vice President, IndustriALL Global Union, Comrade Issa Aremu, called on the Federal Government to urgently constitute a committee on the review of the national minimum wage.


The labour union equally called on NLC and TUC to make urgent case for workers’ control of the country’s pension

Edited from The Nation