Review Health Workers’ Salary, NLC Urges Govt
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the federal government to review the sectoral wages in the health sector.
The labour union also advocated the same for the judiciary sector, insisting that such should be achieved using collective bargaining machinery. It noted that the last time sectoral wages were reviewed was in 2009 despite the spike in the cost of living.
NLC stated this in a communique issued after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Kebbi State on Monday.
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Signed by its President, Ayuba Wabba, and Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja, NLC noted in the communique that it observed “the failure of the Federal Government to review the sectoral wages collective bargaining agreements in the health and judiciary sectors.”
“The last time sectoral wages were reviewed was in 2009 thus occasioning an urgent need for sectoral wage review, particularly in the health and judiciary sectors considering the astronomical spike in the cost of living,” the communique noted.
The union, however, resolved that the government should review the sectoral wages and “promote trade union unity at both sectoral and national level and pursue the formation of a joint action platform at the sectoral level and revitalise the proposed NLC-TUC Joint Organ meetings for the promotion of trade union unity and collective bargaining synergy”.
