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Labour may embark on an industrial action if the current state of affairs as regards the issue of consequential adjustment arising from the new national minimum wage of N30, 000 remains the same.
The union said it had commenced mobilisation of its members nationwide to prepare them for the next line of action.
A statement by the Trade Union Side (TUS) of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) said the eight unions in the public service of federal and state governments were alarmed at the current administration’s persistent efforts to derail the implementation of the new minimum wage.
The TUS Acting Chairman, Anchaver Simon, and Secretary, Alade Lawal, who urged President Muhammadu Buhari to act now, expressed regrets that since the committee set up by the government to work out the consequential adjustments arising from the N30, 000 minimum wage started meeting, government had been coming up with one strange proposal or the other all with the intent of scuttling the implementation of the new pay.
According to them, as things are now, the government side was only prepared to pay peanuts to workers as adjustment under the pretext that it would soon be undertaking general salary review in the public service.