Both unions downed tools to register their grievances over the hike in electricity tariff and lack of consensus on a new minimum wage.
FILES: Labour leaders Festus Osifo and Joe Ajaero at the 2024 Workers’ Day in AbujaThe Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have suspended their industrial action – over a lack of consensus on a new minimum wage and the hike in electricity tariff – for one week.The TUC president Festus Osifo confirmed this in Abuja on Tuesday after a joint extraordinary national executive council meeting of the unions.
The development ground activities in critical sectors of the economy with schools, businesses, hospitals, and airports shut. The national grid was also shut down, throwing the nation into darkness.
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