The Federal Government has, through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, NSIWC, summoned a meeting of the tripartite committee on the new national minimum wage for tomorrow, June 4.
The last meeting of the committee ended abruptly on May 31. This was after the Organised Labour negotiating team walked out following the government and organised private sector, OPS’s refusal to go beyond the N60,000 they had earlier offered.
MDB gathered that tomorrow’s meeting will be by 10 am.
According to sources, the government is alarmed by the level of compliance and participation by workers in the first day of the indefinite nationwide strike.
Meanwhile, the unions shut down the country’s electricity industry in compliance with the strike order.
Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, Dominic Igwebike, told the media that the power sector had been shut down.
Also, all loading activities at fuel depots in Lagos have been halted by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG
