Settle matters around minimum wage or expect crisis: Textiles workers threaten

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Settle matters around minimum wage or expect crisis: Textiles workers threaten

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If compensation of workers by way of a decent minimum wage is not given the attention it so urgently deserves, Nigeria would be risking national industrial crisis except governments at all levels.Comrade Issa Aremu, General Secretary of the Textiles Workers Union, made this assertion yesterday in Kaduna.“Hungry workers are legitimately angry workers. Nigerian workers are not only hungry but legitimately angry.”˜We commend both the Senate and the House of Representatives for their respective facilitating roles in addressing the current issue of national minimum wage,”Aremu said.”˜The five-year time limit was to avoid minimum wage stagnation and attendant seemingly increases that follow.  In UK minimum wage is reviewed yearly.  Today it is £7.5 per hour, about N37,000 per day,” he continued.Still according to Aremu, “Long before the current recession, Nigeria workers have long been in depression. With Naira devaluation and high inflation, 2010 negotiated national minimum wage of N18, 000 which was about $120 in 2010 has fallen to below $50 in 2017 worsening income poverty.  Nigeria cannot get out of recession with poorly paid work-force.”The best way to re-inflate the economy is through wage increase linked with productivity improvement and prompt payment of the existing salaries by states and local governments.President Buhari should therefore urgently constitute the tripartite committee on the review of the current national minimum wage within a short time-limit, he stressed.

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