A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Garba, has warned that the demands being set earlier than the Federal Government by the labour unions would drive firms in personal sector to sack some of their workers.
According to him, the extent of demands the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC are hanging on the Federal authorities will not be sustainable.
The former presidential aspirant famous that the overall quantity of federal, state, and native authorities workers are far beneath the quantity workers within the personal sector.
“With us as private employers of labour, how do they want us to cope? How would the government be for us too?
“If you force us to increase the minimum wage of all our staff beyond what our income can handle, it means retrenchment across many private companies.”
He stated the labour unions should negotiate with warning.
“We must not continue spending 70% of our budget on civil servants salaries, remove subsidies to earn more for development, increase the minimum wage yet again for the civil service and end up spending all the subsidy gains on salaries: a clear vicious circle.
“The truth of the matter is, we are at crossroads; a proverbial battle between body and soul: We either choose our bodily pleasure by eating everything today and damn the consequences from tomorrow, our we choose our soul by enduring the pains of now for the overall benefit of tomorrow.”
