Civil servants in Lagos State,
Monday, said they would receive nothing less than N50,000 as minimum wage.
The workers gathered in front of
the Lagos State House of Assembly after a peaceful march from Ikeja under
bridge yesterday.
Chairman of the State chapter of
the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Funmi Sessi, said the special nature of
Lagos called for the new demand.
Sessi said that the new demand
was coming as part of the workers request to mark the World Day for Decent Work
which is celebrated every October 7 worldwide.
The workers marched through the
major streets of Lagos to the Alausa Secretariat brandishing placards with
inscriptions such as, ‘Employers: Respect workers rights to join union’; ‘We
have the right to good wage, decent work’; ‘No to wage poverty, yes to living
wage’; ‘Invest in care economy, promote universal health care for children and
elderly.’
The NLC chairman insisted that
Lagos State workers presently faced more hardship to get to work, hence the
reason why N30,000 could no more be acceptable.
“For a simple reason, Lagos is a
special state, transportation and house rent are higher and so many hazards on
the roads. When you go to work, market, it’s not the same as Ogun State. Rent
in Lagos has been increased by 400 percent, transport, 200 percent.
“Our demand is that no junior
worker besides the N50,000 minimum wage should go home with less than N15,000
hazard allowance.”
According to Sessi, the workers
were not well remunerated, noting that things have continued to deteriorate.
“The leaders are only enriching
themselves. When Senate and House of Representatives members collected their
N30 million and N25 million welcome packages respectively, do you hear any
news? But to pay N30,000 minimum wage which took two years to negotiate has
become a problem.”
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