Labour and Civil Society Coalition on Monday said workers would go ahead with their two-day warning strike on Wednesday unless the Federal Government signed into law the N18,000 minimum wage bill.
Joe Ajaero, who spoke for LASCO, told reporters that workers in both the public and private sectors had been directed to stay away from work from Wednesday if government failed to implement the agreement.
The only condition that will stop this action is the passage of the law for minimum wage for workers between now and tomorrow, said Ajaero, Secretary, National Union of Electricity Employees.
The union scribe said it would take the National Assembly only a few hours to sign and repeal the existing Act for the new bill to become a law.
Such law had been implemented by past leaders during Shehu Shagari regime. What is needed now is an amendment that will not take a lost time to implement, he said.
He said after the two days warning strike, labour would strategise on when to embark on a total strike if government failed to accede to workers’ demand.
Abiodun Ogunade, who represented the Trade Union Congress, appealed to the Federal Government to implement the wage for workers.
NLC had on Oct. 27 announced that workers would go on two days warning strike on Nov. 10 if the government failed to implement the N18, 000 it agreed to pay workers.
A committee on minimum wage headed by Justice Alfa Belgore submitted its report on the new wage to the government in April 2010 after several tripartite meetings with stakeholders.
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