Nigeria’s main labour unions on Monday shut down the country’s national grid to begin an indefinite strike over failure by the government to agree a
new minimum wage, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said.
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) – two of the country’s biggest unions – said on May 1 that they would down tools if a new minimum wage was not agreed by the end of the month.
They declared an indefinite strike on Friday after wage talks collapsed and said the strike would last until a new minimum wage was in place.
Nigerian union shut down power grid, disrupt airlines with strike over min. wage
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