TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has kicked against perceived clandestine moves by the State Governors to ensure that labour is removed from the exclusive list of constitution.

At its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Lagos, the umbrella body for senior staff associations in the country, vowed to resist all attempts at removing it arguing that the minimum wage is the fulcrum that holds the society together, otherwise there can be total anarchy.

A communiqu? by the congress at the end of the meeting read ‘The session also noted the growing campaign amongst the governors to ensure that minimum wage is removed from the exclusive legislative list of the 1999 constitution. It resolves to resist all such attempts as the minimum wage is the fulcrum that holds the society together, otherwise there can be total anarchy. It further noted that not only should it remain a constitutional issue, it should remain in the exclusive legislative list.

Nigerian workers will resist any further attempt by the lawless governors and their supporters who have failed to comply with the relevant laws of the land especially as it concerns the Minimum wage, to muzzle and impoverish Nigerian workers more by trying to implement these satanic intentions.

TUC NEC also noted that the nation’s unemployment index was worsening and called on the federal government to create an enabling environment for business and Industry to thrive, saying This will create new workplaces thus greater opportunities for employment.

NEC also notes the huge debt owed Construction Companies that has caused mass layoffs thus saturating the Labour market.  This session of NEC calls on the federal government to arrest the situation by paying its huge debt to deserving contractors.