{"id":65417,"date":"2025-05-07T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65417"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:00:23","slug":"council-workers-reject-n40k-pay-deal-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/07\/council-workers-reject-n40k-pay-deal-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Workers Reject N40k Pay Deal in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension is brewing across the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory as workers under the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees have rejected a proposed N40,000 wage increase, branding it an insult to their rights and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists in Gwagwalada, the FCT Secretary of the union, Comrade Sa\u2019ad Abdulmumin, revealed that council chairmen were plotting to implement a flat N40,000 increment\u2014ignoring the N70,000 minimum wage demand already tabled by the union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will resist this betrayal,\u201d Abdulmumin declared. \u201cThe council bosses want to follow the FCT administration\u2019s lead, but we won\u2019t allow any attempt to sidestep the national wage template.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union warned of mass mobilization, protests, and industrial actions if the chairmen refuse to adopt the full minimum wage proposal.<\/p>\n<p>It also vowed to monitor ongoing financial activities in the councils, warning that any suspicious moves during the strike would be reported to anti-corruption agencies.<\/p>\n<p>As the chairmen remain silent\u2014refusing to comment\u2014the union insists it will not back down, declaring that workers\u2019 welfare is not up for negotiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Tension is brewing across the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory as workers under the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees have rejected a proposed N40,000 wage increase, branding it an insult to their rights and dignity. Addressing journalists in Gwagwalada, the FCT Secretary of the union, Comrade Sa\u2019ad Abdulmumin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65419,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417\/revisions\/65419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}