{"id":57432,"date":"2024-12-01T19:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57432"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T19:52:34","slug":"nlc-declares-indefinite-strike-over-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/01\/nlc-declares-indefinite-strike-over-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Declares Indefinite Strike Over Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has declared an indefinite strike for workers in Abuja&#8217;s six area councils, effective December 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The industrial action follows the failure to implement the N70,000 national minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, FCT NLC Chairman Knabanyi Adalo announced the strike, citing a resolution reached by the State Administrative Council during its November 12 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The decision aligns with a November 8 communiqu\u00e9 by the NLC National Executive Council (NEC), in Port Harcourt, which called for compliance with the new minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adalo criticized the council chairpersons for their lack of action, stating, \u201cThe persistent delay and outright refusal by the area councils\u2019 chairmen to pay pending entitlements, including arrears for primary school teachers, is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Failure to implement the new minimum wage is a gross violation of the law and a disregard for the welfare of workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He directed workers in all six area councils to embark on the strike unless the government fulfills its obligations by the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis strike will continue until further directives are issued,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The industrial action highlights escalating tensions between organized labor and government authorities over workers\u2019 welfare and adherence to labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has declared an indefinite strike for workers in Abuja&#8217;s six area councils, effective December 1. &nbsp; The industrial action follows the failure to implement the N70,000 national minimum wage. &nbsp; In a statement issued on Saturday, FCT NLC Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57434,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57432\/revisions\/57434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}