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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Nigeria’s main unions, NUPENG and PENGASSEN, have decided to launch an indefinite strike after talks with the government broke down. The leader of an umbrella labor body representing them announced the news of the strike on September 26.
The union workers are looking for an increase in the minimum wage. In fact, they are looking for triple the minimum wage in the wake of a fuel price hike and currency devaluation over the last two years.
The unions are asking the government to take their monthly wage from 18,000 naira to around 50,000 naira.
“We are going ahead with our planned action,” Peter Ozo-Eson, general secretary of the umbrella union Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC), told Reuters. The NLC acts for workers across most sectors in Nigeria.
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