Workers in Ondo State, on Wednesday, joined other workers across the country to protest against the alleged move by the National Assembly to remove the minimum wage from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List.
The workers in their numbers converged on Reuben Fasoranti Park in Alagbaka as early as 8 am and moved to the Ondo State House of Assembly to register their displeasure over the proposed bill by the National Assembly.
Armed with placards of various inscriptions threatened to paralyse the economy of the state over the ploy to tamper with the minimum wage.
However, the Ondo State House of Assembly assured the state workers and leaders of the Organised Labour in the state that it would not support the bill seeking the removal of minimum wage from the exclusive legislative list of the nation’s constitution.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Bamidele Oleyelogun, who gave the assurance while addressing the protesters noted that the bill if passed, will further impoverish Nigerians workers.
While receiving a protest letter from the labour leaders, Oleyelogun pledged that lawmakers in the state will ensure that the minimum wage is not put on the concurrent list.
Speaking earlier, the State Chairman of NLC, Comrade Sunday Adeleye-Oluwole, and his TUC counterpart, Comrade Helen Odofin said moving minimum wage to a concurrent list would lead to the slavery of Nigerian workers.
The labour leaders noted that the bill if passed will affect the state and local government workers in particular and pleaded with the state lawmakers to reject the bill if transmitted to Ondo State.
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