The newly elected President of the Trade Union Congress, TUC, Quadri
Olaleye,  said that the union would issue an ultimatum for an
industrial action if the Federal Government continued to delay the
implementation of new thirty thousand naira minimum wage.
The TUC president elect said that the government is not showing any
serious commitment to the implementation of the minimum wage.
Representatives of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating
Council on the technical committee set up to negotiate consequential
adjustments arising from the new minimum wage, had disagreed with the
government proposal of nine point five per cent salary increase for
employees on Grade Levels zero seven  to fourteen  and five per cent
for those on Grade Levels fifteen to seventeen.
The council said it would not shift position on its demand for thirty
per cent increase for officers on grade levels seven to fourteen and
twenty- five per cent increase for grade levels fifteen to seventeen.


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