The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has said that the Federal Government stopped paying N35,000 minimum wage after the first month despite having the revenue to pay.
The President of the Trade Union Congress, Festus Osifo, made this claim in an interview with Arise Television on Monday.
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He said the government has stopped the promised 6-month wage award payment after the first payment was made.
Meanwhile, TUC has given President Bola Tinubu a 10-point agenda as part of its demands to the federal government.
He said, “If you’ve signed an agreement and you’re finding it difficult to implement, what you do normally is for you to call the other party, and you sit down together. But we don’t even think that is the challenge, we don’t think that is the problem.
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Osifo noted that the government had not notarised the 10-point agenda that the TUC had presented to the government, which was eventually agreed with.
Osifo then said that the demands that the TUC listed in the 10-point agenda came about as they considered the suffering of the average Nigerian because of high rising prices due to inflation, the removal of fuel subsidy, and other economic challenges.
He stated, “It was based on this that the government came up with this 10-point agenda, because we feel that if government is sincere enough to implement these and put frameworks in place to address all these, the life of an average Nigerian will be better.”
“This government must sit down, buckle its belt and address the issues that are affecting Nigerians, ” he said.
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