Organised Labour and civil society groups on Tuesday vowed to go ahead with the planned indefinite strike starting Wednesday to ensure government reverses the N145 per litre pump price of petrol.
Wednesday’s strike action will be carried out despite the restraining order by the National Industrial Court (NIC) which stopped the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) from embarking on strike.
The Wabba led faction of the NLC had also met with the Federal Government and agreed to set up a joint technical committee to review the new fuel pump price template of N135-N145 within the next two weeks and also work towards reviewing the current national minimum wage of N18, 000.
The NLC faction led by Wabba, alongside TUC, and Joint Action Front, JAF, at separate meetings in Abuja and Lagos, described the restraining order by the NIC as a black market injunction which they will not comply with.
Leaders of Wabba faction of NLC and TUC, at their emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Abuja, insisted that once the strike commences today, only the joint NEC of NLC and TUC could call it off.
