NLC directs workers in Abuja councils to begin strike December 1st

The chairman of the council, Knabanyi Adalo, gave the directive in a statement in Abuja on Saturday.

Mr Idalo explained that this was in adherence to a communique by the NLC National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on 8 November in Port Harcourt, Rivers.

He said that the NEC in the communique, appealed to the councils’ chairpersons to implement the N70,000 national minimum wage.

Mr Idalo said that in response to this inaction, the organised labour in its State Administrative Council meeting held on 12 November, unanimously resolved to adhere strictly to the national directive to embark on an indefinite strike.

He said this directive is subject to any government’s failure to implement the national minimum wage on or before the last day of November.

Therefore, all workers in the six area councils in FCT are hereby directed without hesitation to proceed on an indefinite strike beginning from December 1, until further directives,” he said.