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Strike Update: TUC Strikes New Deal With FG Behind Labour, As Details of Meeting emerges

Strike Update: As Nigerians condition their minds for a nationwide strike expected to be held on Tuesday, The Trade Union Congress (TUC) struck a separate deal with the Federal Government as Labour leaders boycotted the meeting scheduled for Monday evening, ENigeria Newspaper reports.

You would recall that the leadership of the Labour Congress reportedly boycotted the meeting convened by the Minister of Labour, Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong. The meeting which had only Only the leadership of TUC led by its President, Osifo showed up for the meeting slated for 3:00 pm but started at exactly 5:32 pm, was aimed at averting the two-day warning strike already declared by NLC, ENigeria Newspaper understands.

At the meeting which lasted for only 30 minutes, the Federal Government agreed to set a two-week timeline on wage awards, tax exemptions, and allowances to public sector workers to “cushion the pains and anguish they are going through as a result of subsidy removal,” as put forward by the Trade Union Congress.

ENigeria Newspaper reports that among other things, the federal government also agreed to iron out the modalities of accessing the intervention fund that was recently announced as palliative to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

The Congress said only federal workers had not benefited from the palliatives rolled out by the government so far.

Some of the issues requiring urgent attention included the implementation of palliatives; wage award; tax exemptions and allowances to public sector workers; modalities for N70bn SMEs; RTEAN crisis among others.

Lalong said: “We are going to address those issues within the period of two weeks and come back for further discussion. Some of the issues we discussed are those that are very urgent. There are some that will require a long span of time. This was the basis of our discussion.
“We agreed that there should be no strike within the two-week period while we are doing our deliberations and working towards realizing some of these objectives.”

Before the meeting went into a closed-door session, Osifo said the TUC leadership would continue to engage with the federal government to ensure that its demands are addressed.

Strike Update: TUC Strike New Deal with FG

The TUC ruled out any plans to join the two-day warning strike declared by the NLC.

Source: ENigeria Newspaper

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