Minimum Wage: Nigerian Workers to Embark on Nationwide Indefinite Strike on September 30th

ALL WORKERS CONVERGENCE(AWC) Motto:We Make Things Work
Email: [email protected]
Phone no :09055598166
9th Sept,2018.

PRESS RELEASE

It is now crystal clear going by the assertion of the Minister of Labour , Dr Chris Ngige that government will not pay her workers the new minimum wage in September 2018 as promised by the same government. The position of government on this matter is quite regrettable and it suggest a government that is insensitive to the plight of the workers and equally a government that is callous and treats its workers with scorn.

What is now to be done by the Nigerian workers, is to spontaneously react with immediate effect. The Nigerian workers must give direction to our labour leaders that the era of appeal is over, and that we the Nigerian workers will demand and fight for our rights.

The Nigerian workers will never tolerate deceit any longer. Having waited since November 2017 for the minimum wage committee only to dash our hopes in September 2018.

The game is over , Nigerian workers arise.Our families have suffered enough.We can no longer cope with the cost of living. We refuse to be treated as slaves in our own land.The Nigerian government is strangulated us and we say no to that.

The All Workers Convergence(AWC ) call on workers nation wide to start protesting and lock up all work places towards the AWC recommendations to the Nigerian Labour Congress ( NLC ), Trade Union Congress ( TUC ) and the United Labour Congress ( ULC ) to declare an indefinite strike action on September 30th 2018 inorder to compel government to accede to our demands and start the implementation of the minimum wage in September 2018.

We call on the Nigerian workers to exercise their civic rights and massively protest against starvation, exploitation and injustice. Nigerian workers will no longer suffer in silence. Workers arise now and fight for your preservation and rights to decent existence.

Our labour centres ( NLC / TUC / ULC ) and their industrial unions are called upon to adopt the proposal of the Nigerian workers and act appropriately.

Lets all circulate and ensure that every Nigerian worker reads this.

Solidarity forever.
Comrade Andrew Emelieze
National Coordinator (AWC)

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Minimum Wage: Nigeria’s Workers to Embark on Indefinite Strike on September 30th