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NLC threatens strike Dec. 1, demands wage review over worsening hardship

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to initiate a series of industrial actions in all non-compliant states over refusal to implement the new national minimum wage, directing all state councils where the wage has not been fully implemented by the last day of November 2024 to proceed on strike beginning from December 1, 2024.

The Congress said it would not relent until the minimum wage is fully implemented nationwide. It also called for a wage review across the country over worsening hardship, including a review of all the policies that emasculated Nigerian people.

In a communiqué of the National Executive Council (NEC) of NLC after a meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over the weekend, on the state of the nation, its President, Joe Ajaero, lamented that with accelerating economic hardship inflicted upon Nigerians,…
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