The President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Festus Osifo, has said the much-awaited new minimum wage may not be announced on May 1. Osifo made this statement while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja. ”The negotiation by the Tripartite Committee is still ongoing. If you remember, the TUC earlier submitted N447,000 as the […]
FG, states owing March, April workers’ wage award – TUC
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has decried the delay by federal and state governments in paying the workers’ wage award for March and April 2024. TUC President Festus Osifo called out federal and state governments while briefing the media on the fallout of its National Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Thursday. According to […]
Easter: Pay wage award to reduce hardship – TUC begs Kogi Govt
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has appealed to the Kogi State Government to pay wage award to workers in order to reduce the economic hardship in the state. The Kogi State TUC Chairman, Comrade Ahmed Tijani, made the appeal in a statement on Friday while felicitating with Christians in this year’s Easter celebration. Tijani, who […]
South-East NLC, TUC propose N540,000, N447,000 as new minimum wage
The South-East chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, are proposing N540,000 and N447,000, respectively, as new minimum wage for civil servants. The proposal was made on Thursday during the South-East Zonal hearing organised by the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage in Enugu State. Speaking on behalf of […]
Hardship: Your 2027 comment alien to us – TUC responds to Tinubu
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has responded to a recent jibe thrown at labour unions in the country by President Bola Tinubu. DAILY POST reports that Tinubu had on Thursday, bared his disappointment on the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the TUC, saying a situation where they indirectly got entangled in the Nigerian […]
Hardship: Cross River workers, TUC members boycott NLC protest
Members of Trade Union Congress, TUC, as well as government workers in Cross River State, boycotted Tuesday’s protest march organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Calabar. The protest was declared to draw attention to the high cost of living across the country. Similar marches were reported in other states. The protest in Calabar […]
Hardship: ‘Import food’ – TUC advises Tinubu
The Trade Union Congress, TUC, has offered solutions to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration on how to end Nigeria’s raging economic hardship. TUC said the government must immediately import food from abroad to end the ongoing hunger crisis in Nigeria. President of TUC, Festus Osifo, disclosed this during a press conference on the economic hardship […]
EDITORIAL: The ominous pall of nationwide industrial unrest
Contempt threat against NLC, TUC leaders over public protest uncalled for – Femi Falana replies FG
Human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Femi Falana, has clarified that there was nothing contemptuous in the planned February 27 and 28 nationwide public protest by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), insisted that Nigerian workers have freedom of assembly and freedom of expression […]
Economic hardship: Shelve plan for protest, it will worsen situation – DSS tells NLC, TUC
The Department of State Services, DSS, has asked the organized labour to shelve plans to stage protests in the country over the biting economic hardship. The Service warned that some elements are planning to use the opportunity of the protest to foment crisis and by extension, widespread violence, insisting the development will worsen the socio-economic […]