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<\/p>\nThe President-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Bobboi Kaigama, spoke on Monday in Akure during the fifth Triennial Delegates\u2019 Conference of the Ondo State chapter of the union where Com. Helen Odofin emerged the new State Chairman.<\/p>\n
Kaigama insisted that the new minimum wage as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari was not a scam, NAN reports.<\/p>\n
Other newly elected officers included Clement Fatuase \u2013 Vice Chairman; Soladoye Ekundayo -Ex-officio; Dayo Adebiyi -State Secretary; Tope Akinsola \u2013 Asst Sec; Taimiyu Olufemi \u2013 Treasurer.<\/p>\n
Others are Ikechukwu Nneke \u2013 Fin Sec; Femi Owolabi -PRO; Olusegun Akinbolasere \u2013 Auditor I.<\/p>\n
Swearing-in the new officers, Kaigama who was represented by the Secretary-General of TUC, Mr Musa Lawal, noted that a presidential technical committee to work out new salary templates had been set up and expected to submit its report next week.<\/p>\n
Kaigama explained that labour unions and their leaders were not doing enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not sleeping, the battle for the minimum wage is very straight and we are not sleeping on it, what we are currently doing is to create a template.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that is why we are trying to appeal to those that are receiving more than N30,000, is not something you do by magic, it\u2019s technical and that is why we (government and labour) set-up (Presidential) technical committee to look into the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t believe government can scam the workers because I believe in the welfarism of everybody and I don\u2019t have doubt in President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration either to scam or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The outgone State Chairman of TUC, Mr Soladoye Ekundayo, advised the new executive members to make a judicious use of their time and energies by attending to issues that affect workers.<\/p>\n
Odofin, the new TUC chairman, in her acceptance speech said \u201cthe congress and its teeming members have at this time asked me to take lead in the struggle for workers welfare and I have accepted\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Ondo state Chairman of the Nigeria labour Congress (NLC), Mr Sunday Adeleye, said labour unions in the state would start negotiations on the new minimum wage as soon as the federal government comes up with an acceptable template.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The organised labour has dismissed insinuations that the Federal Government was not sincere enough to implement the new minimum wage of N30,000. The President-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Mr Bobboi Kaigama, spoke on Monday in Akure during the fifth Triennial Delegates\u2019 Conference of the Ondo State chapter of the union where Com. Helen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1541,3326],"class_list":["post-123497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ondo","tag-tuc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}