Senate president, David Mark, has promised Nigerian workers that the National Assembly will revisit the issue of the removal of labour and minimum wage from the exclusive list.
He made this known when workers from the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress marched to the National Assembly to protest the position of the Senate for the removal of labour from the exclusive list in the ongoing constitution review.
The two groups have stated that they will resist moves by the Senate to remove minimum wage and other labour matters from the exclusive legislative list because such a move is not in the interest of workers and ordinary people.
In August, the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar had threatened that the union would embark on a nationwide strike and mobilise Nigerian workers to fight against the removal of the minimum wage clause from the exclusive list of the proposed amendment to the 199 constitution by the leadership of the National Assembly.
The National Executive Committee meeting of the Congress insisted that the placement of minimum wage on the concurrent list will further impoverish Nigerian workers.
Recently, the National Chairman of the Labour party, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu said that Nigeria cannot achieve its dream of becoming one of the 20 leading economies in the world by year 2020, if the labour sector is not given federal protection.
The Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomole, while addressing workers, stated that the consequences of removing labour from the exclusive list goes beyond wages explaining that if the senate removes labour from the exclusive list to the concurrent list, every state would withdraw basic protection for workers such as health and safety and social security.
