The Federal Government has appealed to the Organised Labour for a period of two weeks to finalise work on it’s demands.
This is as the Organised Labour insist on a two-fay strike which started today, Tuesday over the failure of the government to meet it’s demand after the removal of subsidy.
Minister of Labour, Simon Lalong, while addressing newsmen at end of a closed door meeting with the Trade Union Congress(TUC) on Monday in Abuja, said the meeting was called to avert the proposed nationwide warning strike by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
The NLC leaders were absent at the meeting called by the minister.
The Federal Government had earlier appealed to NLC to suspend proposed 2-days warning nationwide strike.
Also, the TUC in a communique had said the need to embark on strike had not arisen but would allow conversation with government to address grey areas.
According to Lalong, government is going to address those issues within the period of two weeks and come back for further discussion.
“Some of the issues we discussed are those that are very urgent. There are some that will require a long span of time. This was the basis of our discussion.
“We agreed that there should be no strike within the two-week period while we are doing our deliberations and working towards realising some of these objectives,” he said.
