Nigerian Unions Push Wage Strike That May Curb Oil Exports
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Nigeria’s two main labor federations will go ahead with a planned three-day strike tomorrow that may threaten oil exports after talks with the government on payment of the minimum wage broke down, union officials said.
“The federal government has refused to pay the minimum wage across the board for all levels of workers,” Owei Lakemfa, secretary-general of the Nigerian Labour Congress, the country’s largest union federation, said by phone today from Abuja, the capital. “So the strike is going on.”