{"id":113329,"date":"2024-07-20T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=113329"},"modified":"2024-07-20T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T16:55:50","slug":"minimum-wage-joint-unions-to-shutdown-state-that-fails-to-pay-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/minimum-wage-joint-unions-to-shutdown-state-that-fails-to-pay-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage: Joint unions to shutdown state that fails to pay \u2013 Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1805106437191940498\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Christopher Arapasopo, Chairman, of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Osun Chapter, says joint labour unions have agreed to enforce the new N70,000 minimum wage in all the states and any state that fails to pay will be shut down.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nArapasopo, in an interview with news men on Saturday in Osogbo, said that said the unions agreed on the new minimum wage as a sacrifice to prevent a hike in fuel pump prices.<\/p>\n<p>He said that during its NEC meeting, all members agreed that they would enforce the minimum wage in all the states and that any state that failed to pay would be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governors would never say they were not there when it was agreed. They were the ones agitating for N70,000 as the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, as labour, suggested N250,000 and they brought it down to N62,000 before shifting ground to N70,000, and we accepted it. we have sacrificed a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, for any government or governor that fails to pay, we will shut that state down. It is a must for them to pay. It is a no-go area. We are not negotiating that\u201d, Osun NLC chair said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, we had our NEC meeting which we just concluded some hours ago, where all the state representatives adopted the amount that was announced, based on some facts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President said if we insisted on our demand of N250, 000, he would have to increase the fuel price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d But as good citizens of Nigeria, we believe the demand should not be only to the benefit of a particular sector alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs workers, we should be able to think about other Nigerians and not ourselves alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we made the sacrifice to accept the N70,000 to avoid the price of fuel going up.\u201d he said<br \/>\nArapasopo said If the union had insisted on the N250,000 minimum wage, Nigerians and workers would suffer the increment in fuel pump price and inflation would increase.<\/p>\n<p>He said the N70,000 accepted by labour was still fair as it would be the least salary paid to workers in the lowest cadre.<\/p>\n<p>Arapasopo added that consequential adjustments and benefits attached to the levels would even jack up the wage when it was implemented.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Osun chapter of the union would meet with the state government to discuss some allowances for workers, \u201cbut the minimum wage stands non-negotiable\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Christopher Arapasopo, Chairman, of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Osun Chapter, says joint labour unions have agreed to enforce the new N70,000 minimum wage in all the states and any&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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