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Labour suspends planned strike, protest in Kano, agree on terms
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By Abdulmumin Murtala
FOLLOWING an earlier announced three-day strike scheduled to commence on Thursday, April 8, 2021, by workers in Kano, protesting the reversion to the former minimum wage of N18,000 from the new minimum wage of N30,600, the Kano council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has announced the suspension of the industrial action after reaching some agreements with the government.
Organised Labour also announced the suspension of a planned peaceful protest scheduled for Monday, April 12, 2021. This was announced in a statement issued to newsmen and signed by the National Deputy President, NLC, Najeem Yasin, after a meeting with the state government that ended late in the night on Wednesday.
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The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its earlier plans for a 3-day warning strike and peaceful protest scheduled to commence today, Thursday, over alleged plans by the state government to revert to N18,000 minimum wage.
The suspension of the planned strike was announced by the National Deputy President of the Union, Mr Najeem Yasin while briefing newsmen at the early hours of Thursday in Kano.
The labour union recalled that the State government had deducted the workers’ March salary.
According to him, the decision to suspend the strike and peaceful protest followed the agreement reached between the Kano State Government and the organised labour on Wednesday.
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Labour suspends planned strike, protest in Kano, agree on terms
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By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano
Following an earlier announced three days strike scheduled to commence on Thursday 8th April 2021, by workers in Kano, protesting the reversion to the former minimum wage of N18,000.00 from the new minimum wage of N30,600.00, the Kano council of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, has announced the suspension of the industrial action after reaching some agreements with the government.
The organised Labour also announced the suspension of a planned peaceful protest scheduled for Monday 12th April 2021.
This was announced in a statement issued to newsmen and signed by the National Deputy President, NLC, Najeem Yasin after a meeting with the state government that ended late in the night on Wednesday.
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The Kano State council of NLC had issued a seven-day ultimatum for the government to revert the March salary to N30,000 minimum wage, after which three days warning strike would be declared.
But the Kano State Government declared that it will not be able to pay the N30,000 minimum wage for the month of March, citing dwindling monthly FAAC allocation.
NLC national president Comrade Ayuba Waba, who disclosed the withdrawal of the strike while addressing journalists early morning Thursday, declared the new development was reached after an emergency meeting held with four delegations of the state government led by head of service, Binta Lawan Ahmed.
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The organised labour has suspended the three-day warning strike it planned to commence today (Thursday) in Kano over the deduction of workers salary for the month of March by the state government.
The NLC Deputy National President, Najeem Yasin announced the suspension of the strike on Wednesday night at a joint news conference with other labour movement and affiliates in Kano after a meeting with the State government team led by the Head of Civil Service, Hajia Binta Lawan Ahmed.
The NLC had last week given a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to refund and stop what it described as “illegal deduction” from civil servant salaries or face industrial action.