The Nigeria Labour Congress’s Abia State chapter has pledged to follow the Trade Union Congress’ and NLC’s directive to launch an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday.
Following the Federal Government’s inability to complete and enact a new National Minimum Wage Act and undo the increase in the price of electricity to N65/kwh, the NLC and TUC announced a strike on Friday.
In an interview on Friday, Ogbonnaya Okoro, the chairman of the Abia NLC, revealed this.
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“We will join the strike. By this weekend, we will start mobilisation and join others. The order is just coming this night and we will communicate them on Monday. It will begin on Monday and will not stop on Monday.
“The offices are not open on weekends and we will not go beyond the law. The arrangement came suddenly. We will follow the due process and serve them. We will call for state emergency meeting on Monday. We will do the necessary things so that we will not be faulted.
“The order came late and you don’t serve notices on Saturday, so we will do that on Monday,” he said.
The Minimum Wage Repeal and Re-Enactment Act, 2019 was signed into law by former President Muhammadu Buhari in April of that year.
The act established a new minimum wage of N30,000.
