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Deputy President of the Nigeria Labor Congress, Comrade Peters Adeyemi, has hinted that labour unions will have to up the demand for minimum wage from the federal government from N56,000 to over N110,00.
Adeyemi is also the leader of the Organised Labour Technical and Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage.
He pointed out that if labour movement were to present its demand now, it would “probably present double” of N56,000.
Definitely, he said, “N56,000 will not be our demand,” if the demand is made at present in the face of the present economic reality.
“Those of us in the labour movement, this issue of minimum wage are critical for us. It is about life and death. N18,000 as of today cannot buy you anything.
“If Nigeria labour movement is going to present a new demand today, definitely the N56,000 will not be our demand. Probably, we would have been asking for double of that because the situation has changed drastically from the time we made the submission and now. The cost of everything has gone up.”
“For us in the in the movement, if we are to make that demand right now, that clearly is not going to be labour’s demand. In Nigeria today, 56,000 is clearly not what any Nigerian can survive on.
“Labour is convinced that N56,000 minimum wage is doable. It is doable in the sense that when u put all the indices and parameters in place, you find out that N50,000 cannot give a comfortable life to an average worker in a month.
Adeyemi is also the leader of the Organised Labour Technical and Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage.
He pointed out that if labour movement were to present its demand now, it would “probably present double” of N56,000.
Definitely, he said, “N56,000 will not be our demand,” if the demand is made at present in the face of the present economic reality.
“Those of us in the labour movement, this issue of minimum wage are critical for us. It is about life and death. N18,000 as of today cannot buy you anything.
“If Nigeria labour movement is going to present a new demand today, definitely the N56,000 will not be our demand. Probably, we would have been asking for double of that because the situation has changed drastically from the time we made the submission and now. The cost of everything has gone up.”
“For us in the in the movement, if we are to make that demand right now, that clearly is not going to be labour’s demand. In Nigeria today, 56,000 is clearly not what any Nigerian can survive on.
“Labour is convinced that N56,000 minimum wage is doable. It is doable in the sense that when u put all the indices and parameters in place, you find out that N50,000 cannot give a comfortable life to an average worker in a month.
