Chairman of Oyo state Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Emmanuel Ogundiran, Wednesday warned that the planned removal of minimum wage from the exclusive list to concurrent list would destroy Nigeria’s economy.
Comrade Ogundiran handed down the warning in Ibadan while briefing newsmen on the Oyo state version of the nationwide protest against the planned removal of minimum wage.
The TUC chairman stated that some people are hell bent on throwing the country into confusion by further throwing more Nigerians into unemployment market and toying with the welfare of an average Nigerian worker over the planned removal of the minimum wage from the exclusive list to current list.
“Removing the minimum wage from the exclusive list to concurrent list means, it is no more the federal government that have the final say on the issue, but both the state and the federal government can adjudicate on it. It means the governors can decide on the amount to be paid as minimum wage and this will further enslave the workers,” Ogundiran said.
The TUC chairman called on the Oyo state House of Assembly not to be part of the plan by not considering the passage of the bill which he described as anti workers bill.
On the protest, the TUC chairman said it may lead to unending strike if the National Assembly was recalcitrant in passing the bill into law.
Oyo state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Union (NLC), Comrade Kayode Martins, declared that the bill was an anti worker’s and does not have human face vowing that NLC would do the needful to ensure that the bill does not see the light of the day.
