NUJ condemns govs’ attempt to reduce minimum wage

The Nigerian Union of Journalists has lent its voice to the condemnation of the attempt by the Nigeria Governors Forum to renege on the payment of N18,000 minimum wage to workers, while urging all media houses owing their workers to pay up or face the wrath of the union.
In a 10-point communiqué issued at the end of its first National Executive Council meeting under the Waheed Odusile leadership, held in Katsina State, the body also frowned at the deplorable state of federal roads and called on the Federal Government to immediately rehabilitate the roads.

The union urged the governors not to toe a path that will put them in confrontation with labour unions, saying the action of the states’ helmsmen will be detrimental to labour laws and the constitution of the country.
This is coming on the heels of a similar action from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, which have both vowed to resist the latest attempt by the governors to further impoverish Nigerian workers.