Citing the need to stop economic sabotage, Senate President Akpabio has started a motion to make industrial actions illegal in response to the Nigeria Labour Congress’s (NLC) recent statewide strike.
According to an NLC statement, the organization’s June 3rd strike was a direct response to the federal government’s inability to reach a resolution in the national minimum wage discussions, reverse the increases in power tariffs, and put an end to consumer classifications that are discriminatory.
In reaction to the walkout, Akpabio has vowed to add new clauses to the upcoming minimum wage legislation to address what he sees as the NLC and the Trade Union Congress’s (TUC) “extreme actions to sabotage the economy.”
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The nationwide grid outage that occurred during the NLC’s strike, according to Akpabio, was more of an act of sabotage than of agitation. Additionally, he denounced the inconvenience of Hajj flights brought on by the international airport’s closure.
The upper legislative house has revealed that the soon-to-be-enacted new National Minimum Wage Act would change the laws against it, ensuring that a situation like this one never arises again.
But the NLC has flatly denied Akpabio’s recent claims that the TUC and NLC’s indefinite statewide strike on Tuesday was an act of economic sabotage. It reiterated its steadfast commitment to the rights of Nigerian workers and called such claims unfounded and highly concerning for patriots and democracy supporters.
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