Minimum Wage: No Going Back On N30,000- NLC Insists

<br /> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-493510 aligncenter" height="253" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" src="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NLC.jpg" srcset="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NLC.jpg 450w, http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NLC-300x169.jpg 300w" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="450" /></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <strong>The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed not to go back on the already negotiated new minimum wage of N30,000. The labor unions position came after the Nigerian Governors Forum stated that paying 30,000 nairas is not feasible in the face of the current economic situation.</strong></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> The NLC in a statement said</div> <blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 153) !important; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 8px 8px -6px; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 25px; position: relative;"> <div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “We hereby reiterate our directive to Nigerian workers to vote out any politician or political party that refuses to pay the new national minimum wage of N30,000 naira. We shall continue to consolidate our efforts to strengthen the existing platforms and structures to give teeth to our resolve to vote out anti-labour governors and politicians in the forthcoming 2019 general elections’’</div> </blockquote> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> The NLC also warned President Buhari to be wary of some governors who are bent on portraying him as an anti-worker President for selfish reasons. The union has however vowed to resist any state government that would attempt to frustrate the union’s efforts in putting smiles on the faces of the Nigerian workers.</div> <blockquote style="background: rgb(255, 255, 153) !important; border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-shadow: rgb(51, 51, 51) 0px 8px 8px -6px; color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 25px; position: relative;"> <div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “We call on President Muhammadu Buhari to speedily present to the National Assembly the bill on the National Minimum Wage for appropriate amendment and implementation” the statement read</div> </blockquote>

Minimum Wage: No Going Back On N30,000- NLC Insists

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed not to go back on the already negotiated new minimum wage of N30,000. The labor unions posi...

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ASUU Speaks On Calling Off Strike

<br /> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class=" wp-image-347369 aligncenter" height="421" sizes="(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px" src="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASUU-1-700x429.jpg" srcset="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASUU-1-700x429.jpg 700w, http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASUU-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASUU-1.jpg 770w" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="687" /></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <strong>The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it was not in a position to determine whether an end to its ongoing strike is in sight.</strong></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> ASUU Chairman, University of Abuja chapter, Dr. Ben Ugheoke, said this on Wednesday in an interview with DAILY POST in Abuja.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Recall that the lecturers, penultimate week embarked on industrial action over the failures of the Federal Government to implement its part of the agreement it signed with the union towards ensuring proper funding of the universities, the payment of full salaries by state-owned universities, and the payment of earned academic allowances, among others.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Speaking, Dr. Ugheoke explained that the onus lay with the Federal Government to call ASUU to the negotiation table with a view to bringing an end to the strike.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “I can’t tell if an end to the strike is in sight. If the Federal Government calls us for negotiations, we are not against that. But, we are in the government’s position,” he said.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> On whether his chapter of the union had plans of pulling out of the ongoing industrial action, he said: “The strike is national. Whatever ASUU’s NEC (National Executive Council) directs, that’s what UNIABUJA chapter follows.”</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Meanwhile, ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has said the union was ready to commence negotiations with the government over the ongoing strike.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Ogunyemi said a meeting with the Federal Government delegation has been scheduled for Thursday, one o’clock at the instance of the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu</div>

ASUU Speaks On Calling Off Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said it was not in a position to determine whether an end to its ongoing strike is i...

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ASUU Wants FG To Negotiate With Union To End Strike

<br /> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-348000 aligncenter" height="429" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" src="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/asuu-1-700x429.jpg" srcset="http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/asuu-1-700x429.jpg 700w, http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/asuu-1-150x92.jpg 150w, http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/asuu-1.jpg 770w" style="display: block; height: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="700" /></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <strong>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says it is ready to negotiate with government toward ending its one-week old industrial action.</strong></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who was guest on TVC News Breakfast show on Tuesday, also advised government to establish an education bank for proper funding of universities.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> He regretted the attitude of government to the university lecturers’ demands, saying that letters notifying government of the strike, which were submitted to the education and labour ministries on Nov. 5, had not been replied.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “We wrote to inform the ministries that we had resumed our strike. We told them that we had resumed the strike we suspended in Sept. 2017 because government failed to implement agreements we signed. “The ministries signed to acknowledge receipt of the copies we gave them, but none has written a reply to us,” he said.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> He accused the political class of strangling primary and secondary education in Nigeria, saying that 24 states had failed to access the Universal Basic Education Commission funds for 2018.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> According to him, that has left UBEC with more than N60 billion that states have yet to access. Ogunyemi observed that the federal government, which had consistently allocated seven per cent to education in the last two years, was not sincere in the claim that it was declaring a state of emergency in the education sector.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> “The Federal Government suddenly woke up from slumber and announced a state of emergency in the education sector. It also promised to allocate 15 per cent of its budget to the sector. We find this unbelievable and deceitful. “We feel that the `sudden’ promise has more to do with the fact that we are in an election year,” he declared.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> He alleged that the ruling class in Nigeria had no concern for the education of the poor. NAN reports that the lecturers had resolved to remain at home until their demands, which include proper funding of the universities, are met.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> Other demands included the payment of full salaries by state-owned universities, payment of earned academic allowances, among others</div>

ASUU Wants FG To Negotiate With Union To End Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says it is ready to negotiate with government toward ending its one-week old industrial...

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