FG, Labour reach truce, planned strike suspended for one month… 

Organised Labour last night suspended its planned nationwide strike for one month following an agreement with the Federal Government.

Though details of the Memorandum of Understanding suspending the strike, were sketchy at the time of this report, the agreement was reached very late at night.

The meeting was reconvened yesterday for both government and labour to find common ground and avert the planned strike by organized labour to force the government to address the suffering and pains of Nigerians, occasioned by the petrol subsidy removal.

Earlier yesterday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of NLC and its TUC’s counterpart, had met separately to review Sunday’s meeting with the Federal Government’s offers.

It was gathered that at the end of the separate NEC meeting, leaders of NLC and TUC set up a committee to harmonise their resolutions to arrive at common ground.

According to the sources, the joint resolution of NLC and TUC was presented to the government team around 5 pm.

But the meeting did not reconvene until 8.15 pm when the government team returned to the chagrin of labour leaders who almost left the venue in anger. Recall that President Bola Tinubu had on Sunday evening, succumbed to the N35,000, provisional wage award demanded by labour after his initial N25,000 for the average low-grade worker to run for six months was rejected.

Instead, labour insisted that the wage award should be across the board and run till a new minimum wage expected to be negotiated next year is put in place.