Controversy: We didn’t negotiate N40,000 pay adjustment for federal workers—NLC

*Explains wage increase negotiation done by public sector unions
By Victor Ahiuma-Young
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has distanced itself from the negotiation of the N40,000 consequential adjustment granted to federal workers, insisting that the responsibility rested solely with the leadership of public sector unions and not the national labour centre.

The Congress said the widespread attribution of the N40,000 across-the-board addition to its leadership was misleading, accusing unnamed opponents of the trade union movement of deliberately distorting the collective bargaining process to misinform Nigerian workers and the general public. In a statement yesterday by its Acting ...