The All Workers Convergence (AWC)
has declared that the lingering new national minimum wage issue was a
reflection of the conspiracy between labour leaders and the Federal Government.
AWC National Coordinator, Comrade
Andrew Emelieze made this declaration while speaking with journalists in
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital at the weekend.
He said that what the group has
been seeing is a labour movement whose activities look more like a conspiracy
between labour and the federal government to deceive Nigerian workers.
Emelieze said, ”What we have been
seeing is a labour movement that has been begging the question, in activities
that look more of a conspiracy of labour with the Federal Government to deceive
the Nigerian workers and continually postpone the actualization of the new
minimum wage.
”The scenario as it is unfolding
compels one to re-examine the engagement of labour in this regard. One would
not but say that for the workers to have waited for over three years and there
seems to be no green light at the end of the day, portrays the labour movement
as very weak, conservative and equally not willing to achieve a new minimum
wage for Nigerian workers.
”But if labour is ready for the
actualization of the new minimum wage, labour knows what to do even with the
last aborted strike action by labour suggested that if labour has carried on
with the strike action by now, the agitation would have been over.
He urged labour leaders to wake
up from its slumber by saving workers from the current hardship in the country.
Emelieze said, “As far as the AWC
is concerned, the Nigerian workers are saying that labour should wake up and
not sleep over workers’ sufferings, as the situation is becoming more painful,
when countries such as South Africa has increased workers’ minimum wage”.
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