The Organised Labour says it will not accept N62,000 or N100,000 as minimum wage for Nigerian workers describing the amounts as starvation wage.
It insisted on N250,000, being its latest demand at the last meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage on Friday, as the living wage for an average Nigerian worker.
The Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Chris Onyeka who spoke in a media chat said the one-week grace period given to the Federal Government last Tuesday, would expire by the midnight of Tuesday, June 11, 2024.
He said if the Federal Government and National Assembly fail to act on the demands of workers by tomorrow (Tuesday), the organs of the NLC and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, would meet to decide on the resumption of the nationwide industrial action which was relaxed last week.
The unions according to him have never contemplated N100,000 let alone N62,000 insisting that they still considered N250,000 enough concession to the government and the other partners based realities of the market place.
Onyeka urged the Federal Government and the National Assembly to look at demands and send an Executive Bill to the National Assembly to enable it come up with a National Minimum Act that meets our demands of the working class.