The Nigeria Labour Congress said any fuel price hike would be met with industrial action.
The statement followed conjectures that fuel price was about to be increased, a speculation the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Federal has rubbished.
However, the strike threat was issued by NLC President, Joe Ajaero, at the ongoing African Alliance of Trade Unions meeting in Abuja, on Monday.
“As we’re here now. They’re contemplating on increasing the pump price of petroleum products. But the Minister of Labour for some time now will only go to the Minister of Justice to come up with an injunction to hold the hands of labour not to respond. They have started floating ideas of a likely increase in the price of petroleum products.
“But let me say this: Nigerian workers will not give any strike notice if we have not addressed the consequences of the last two increases in fuel pump price, and we wake up from sleep to hear that they have tampered with the fuel pump price again.
“I want to plead with the government that those bad economic policies that make our wages next to nothing should be checked. If you check those policies that lead to inflation and devaluation of the currency, we will be comfortable even where we are. If naira is at par with the dollar today, we will ask you to leave minimum wage at N30,000,’’ Ajaero said.
