The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)? and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have issued 10-day ultimatum to Plateau Government to pay the N18,000 minimum wage to council workers or “face economic paralyses’’.
The Chairman, Plateau Council of the NLC, Mr Jibrin Bancir, made this known at a news briefing in Jos on Friday.
The NLC also charged the government to end the eight-month old strike initially championed by the state branch of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE).
The NLC chairman told newsmen that “the NLC/TUC at their central working committee held on Nov. 27 resolved among other issues that a 10 -day ultimatum be issued.
Bancir said the ultimatum takes effect from Nov. 30 and will elapse on Dec. 9 midnight.
According to him, if the impasse is not resolved, all workers in the state, including private organisations, will embark on total withdrawal of services.
He said that the affiliate unions to NLC and TUC would relocate their national headquarters to Jos to see to the success of the struggle.
The NLC chairman called on all workers to remain resolute and to continue to mobilise for the impending action.
He said that the strike would have since been suspended if the State Government had been sincere and willing to accept the union’s earlier position.
Bancir refuted the allegations that the NLC was sponsored by opposition parties and challenged the government to tender proof for the public to see.
“They claimed that we met with politicians on Nov.27 in Abuja whereas we were having a meeting with CAN in Mangu Local Government,’’ he added.
He blamed those he described as the lieutenants of Gov. Jonah Jang, for not telling him the truth, thereby worsening the situation which would have been resolved a long time ago.
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