The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has stated that the government must comply with its demands in order to lessen the impact of eliminating the fuel subsidy before the meeting between the Federal Government and organised labour that is planned to take place today (Monday).
The union vowed to urge for workers to participate in industrial action and added that it had just postponed its intended strike.
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It claimed that Nigerians were suffering intolerable hardship as a result of the high cost of petrol and urged the government to respond quickly to provide palliatives since the NLC anticipated an increase in the minimum wage from N30,000 to N150,000.
The Federal Government and labour unions convened on June 5, 2023, and decided to meet again on June 19 to decide on the framework for putting the resolutions reached into action.
The government side, led by Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, agreed on a seven-point resolution during the June 5 meeting to mitigate the impact of the elimination of subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit, or petrol, on Nigerians.
Speaking to the media on Sunday on the expectations of labour from the meeting scheduled to hold today (Monday), the Vice President, NLC, Adewale Adeyanju, said a lot of things had been presented by labour unions, stressing that the government should not act funny.
He said;
There are a lot of things that labour has been putting before the government. The refineries need to be revamped. We cannot continue to import refined petroleum products and be spending on subsidies all the time.
Labour has its set of demands and by the time we meet with the government tomorrow we will list them out again.
We hope that the meeting is going to be fruitful. The expectations are very high. The nation is watching and people are looking at how the Nigeria Labour Congress is going to handle the situation.
And the government too will not like to behave funny because they know the country is battling with the increase in fuel pump price and so many things.
