Minimum wage: It’s fight to finish, says labour

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By EMMAN   OVUAKPORIE ABUJA— SPEAKER House of Representatives, Mr Aminu Tambuwal, yesterday set an all encompassing legislative agenda to span the four-year duration of the 7th Assembly and pledged to be transparent in all legislative duties within this period. After holding an executive session that lasted over three hours with his colleagues, Tambuwal said in a bid to have an enduring 7th Assembly session, the House members resolved to set a legislative agenda that would be transparent in all its legislative affairs.

BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

KADUNA – NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said labour will battle governors and other employers who refuse to pay the N18,000 new minimum wage to submission.

General Secretary of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, said the call by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, for the removal of subsidy on petroleum products as a precondition for the implementation of the Minimum Wage Act had taken the nation back to the era of military dictatorship.

Aremu, who is also Vice- President of NLC, in a statement, titled “No” to policy dictatorship by governors,” said: “The governors under the aegis of NGF should face up to the challenge of governance which the new minimum wage poses in their respective states instead of arm-twisting a newly-elected President to pursue unpopular policies capable of promoting instant mass disaffection.”

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Minimum wage: It’s fight to finish, says labour