{"id":449746,"date":"2011-06-29T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/minimum-wage-it%e2%80%99s-fight-to-finish-says-labour\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T03:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T03:12:18","slug":"minimum-wage-its-fight-to-finish-says-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/minimum-wage-its-fight-to-finish-says-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage: It\u2019s fight to finish, says labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55\">\n<p><strong>BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KADUNA \u2013 NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said labour will battle governors and other employers who refuse to pay the N18,000 new minimum wage to submission.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, said the call by the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum, NGF, for the removal of subsidy on petroleum products as a precondition for the implementation of the Minimum Wage Act had taken the nation back to the era of military dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Aremu, who is also Vice- President of NLC, in a statement, titled \u201cNo\u201d to policy dictatorship by governors,\u201d said: \u201cThe governors under the aegis of NGF should face up to the challenge of governance which the new minimum wage poses in their respective states instead of arm-twisting a newly-elected President to pursue unpopular policies capable of promoting instant mass disaffection.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/06\/minimum-wage-its-fight-to-finish-says-labour\/\" title=\"Minimum wage: It\u2019s fight to finish, says labour\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minimum wage: It\u2019s fight to finish, says labour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG KADUNA \u2013 NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said labour will battle governors and other employers who refuse to pay the N18,000 new minimum wage to submission. General Secretary of the union, Comrade Issa Aremu, said the call by the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum, NGF, for the removal of subsidy on petroleum products as a precondition for the implementation of the Minimum Wage Act had taken the nation back to the era of military dictatorship. Aremu, who is also Vice- President of NLC, in a statement, titled \u201cNo\u201d to policy dictatorship by governors,\u201d said: \u201cThe governors under the aegis of NGF should face up to the challenge of governance which the new minimum wage poses in their respective states instead of arm-twisting a newly-elected President to pursue unpopular policies capable of promoting instant mass disaffection.\u201d Comments are moderated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minimum wage: It\u2019s fight to finish, says labour - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/minimum-wage-its-fight-to-finish-says-labour\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Minimum wage: It\u2019s fight to finish, says labour - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG KADUNA \u2013 NATIONAL Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, has said labour will battle governors and other employers who refuse to pay the N18,000 new minimum wage to submission. 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