The organised Labour in Kwara State has threatened to embark on industrial action if the state government fails to implement the N30,000 new minimum wage.
The labour union comprising of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, issued the threat during an emergency meeting held at the Labour House in Ilorin, the state capital, yesterday.
NLC and TUC explained that the state Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed has refused to constitute a minimum wage committee despite efforts to convince him, hence the threat to embark on strike.
Speaking, the state Chairman of TUC, Kola Olumoh said the “issue of the N30,000 minimum wage has been passed into law and it should be seen as an act of the law that is binding for state governors to emulate.
“We are ready and willing to ensure that the state government pays the minimum wage of N30,000 by the virtue of the adjustment that has been made and signed by Labour.
“We hope and expect that the state government will be magnanimous as a way of giving back to the workers, the dividends of having voted them in to pay us our N30,000 minimum wage before December 31st.”
