Edo North Senator Adams Oshiomhole has said there is a need
for both the public and private sector to pay workers the new minimum wage of
N35,000 before Christmas.
Oshiomhole warned that there would be no Christmas
celebrations if workers are not paid N35,000 minimum wage.
He spoke at the 8th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the
Non-Academics Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in
Abuja.
The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Federal
Government have been going back and forth over the need to improve workers’
wages in the country.
NLC had severally threatened nationwide strike in a bid to
prevail on the Federal Government to increase the wages of workers.
Oshiomhole, speaking at the event, said: “Now that you have
N35,000, there are workers from different states. Are all the state governments
implementing it? The answer is no. Why should it be no, and why are they at
peace? Your members are not at peace in the States.
“It should not be a selective application. The N35,000 must
affect all workers. It has to go around all workers in Nigeria, whether public
or private, that is the logic of nationwide strike.
“Please tell the NLC President that those are the issues
that they must solve so that this December, nobody goes home without that
N35,000.
“Whether such a worker is working for the federal, state,
local government or the private sector, that N35,000 must be paid. If you don’t
pay, there will be no Christmas for you as an employer whether public or
private sector.”
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