The tripartite meeting between the Federal Government, state governors and representatives of the organised labour over the N18,000 minimum wage ended in a deadlock in Abuja on Monday.
With the development, the three-day warning strike by workers will begin on Wednesday as scheduled, according to organised labour.
“The strike is very much on course. We just ended a meeting with Vice-President, Namadi Sambo. But unfortunately, nothing new was put on the table. So we are fully mobilised for Wednesday,” the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress Committee on National Strike, Mr. Promise Adewusi, told THE PUNCH in Abuja.
Before Adewusi spoke, the Labour and Civil Society Coalition maintained in Lagos that workers would go ahead with the strike unless the National Assembly passed a bill on the minimum wage.
LASCO comprises the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and the Joint Action Forum.
Also on Monday, a formidable affiliate of TUC, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, directed its members to participate fully in the strike.
THE PUNCH learnt that before the meeting with the union leaders in the vice-president’s office, the National Council of State sub-committee first deliberated on how to stop the strike.
The Sambo-led sub- committee has Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Gabriel Suswan (Benue) as members.
Adewusi and the President-General of the TUC, Mr. Peter Esele, led the labour team that included Mr. Peter Adeyemi, Mr. Isah Aremu and Mr. Iduh Odah.
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