Trade Union Congress on Sunday, September 29, said Nigerian workers have been swindled by the federal government
The union said the plan by FG to set up a fresh committee on the already approved minimum wage is uncalled for, with the leadership of the TUC also saying that they have learnt their lessons on dealing with the federal government on the issue of minimum wage.
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has described the prolonged controversy on the federal government’s approved N30,000 minimum wage as a possible scam.
The union on Sunday, September 29, said Nigerian workers have been swindled by the government on the N30,000 minimum wage approval. And said in an independence anniversary message that the talk by the federal government to set up another committee on the already approved N30,000 minimum wage makes Nigerian workers believe they have been swindled.
“To talk about setting up another committee over the same issue makes us feel we have been swindled. We have learnt our lessons.”
The union also said it is disturbing that months after the National Minimum Wage Committee (NMC) set up by the federal government to work on the new wage had submitted their report government is still not committed to paying the new wage. “We are beginning to think that signing it in the first place was because of the 2019 General elections,” the statement said.
