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Comrade Issa Aremu Vice President,
Nigeria Labour Congress making his speech at the EHINGBETI SUMMIT 2014 Summit, Lagos.
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Secretary General of the National
Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), Comrade
Issa Aremu, has expressed concern over non-payment of workers' salaries by many
state governors.
Speaking with newsmen in Kaduna at
the NUTGTWN meeting, Aremu described the development as a wage theft, wage
robbery and economic crime, according to The Nation.
Aremu who is the Vice President of
the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) said for about three months now, 22 state
governors are delaying or refusing to pay salaries but paid the delegates
during the just concluded primary elections across the states.
“We see that delay in payment of
salaries as wage theft, wage robbery. It is actually an economic crime because
Nigeria labour law says thou shall pay the worker as at when due. In fact by
22nd of every month you must have pay the workers fully.
“We never heard of any delegate
being owed a single penny during the primary elections, but they cannot get
money to pay the workers. In fact, some of the delegates even bought new cars
and properties after the primaries because they money they got in just few days
is much more than what workers earn in many months. The governors should go to
the place they got they money to pay delegates and settle the workers’ salaries
,” he said.
He also said the NUTGTWN has
succeeded in negotiating a 15% increase in wages for its members, making it a
35% increase in the last four years.
“This shows that the process of collecting
bargaining is working in the private sector and we will like to recommend this
process for the public sector because most of their crisis is on the increase
of wages and salaries which has been causing endless strikes and unfavourable
industrial actions,” he added.
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