El presidente de Nigeria aumentó los sueldos para algunos empleados públicos en un esfuerzo de último minuto para apaciguar a los sindicatos, que habían amenazado con declarar una huelga que podría haber paralizado grandes sectores de la mayor economía de África.
Los trabajadores de rango menor cobrarán los próximos seis meses 25.000 nairas adicionales por mes, anunció el domingo el presidente Bola Tinubu en una alocución nacional con motivo del 63er aniversario de la independencia.
Tinubu, quien lleva en la presidencia desde el 29 de mayo, ha anunciado una serie de políticas económicas que han aumentado el costo de la vida para más de 210 millones de personas que ya se veían agobiadas por la inflación que fue de 25,8% en agosto, un nivel no visto desde hace 18 años. Las negociaciones con los sindicatos se han estancado y los fracasos en los intentos de intervención llevaron al anuncio de huelga hecho la semana pasada. El domingo, Tinubu dijo que el aumento salarial mejorará la compensación de los trabajadores “sin causar una inflación indebida”.
Norge Siste Nytt, Norge Overskrifter
Similar News:Du kan også lese nyheter som ligner på denne som vi har samlet inn fra andre nyhetskilder.
As Kusile unit returns early, South Africa misses renewables procurement deadlineElectricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has welcomed the earlier-than-expected return of Kusile Unit 3 coal-fired generation, but has also acknowledged that government simultaneously failed to meet its end of September deadline for the release of the next public procurement round for renewable energy. Eskom confirmed on Saturday September 30 that Kusile Unit 3 had been restarted nearly a year after it, together with units 1 and 2, became inoperable after a slurry build up in the Unit 1 flue led to its collapse, damaging the other two flues in the west chimney they share in the process.
Les mer »
Op-ed: US should change course in West Africa to avert loss of lifeU.S. forces are sitting on powder kegs in West Africa. If Washington soon resumes business as usual, more hostile resistance is likely.
Les mer »
How South Africa botched its first coal power-plant transitionKey ministers in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government have attacked the switch to renewable energy.
Les mer »
JET pledges rise to $11.9bn as South Africa moves to finalise implementation planThe South African government has received additional pledges, worth nearly $3.5-billion, in support of its Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET IP), increasing the overall envelope of concessional debt and grant funding to R11.9-billion. The Presidency’s Rudi Dicks told the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) that Denmark and the Netherlands had combined their pledges with those of the International Partners Group (IPG) of France, Germany, the UK, the US and the European Union, which committed $8.5-billion to the JET IP in 2021.
Les mer »
Striking workers at key South Africa coal port reject wage offerWorkers at the Richards Bay Coal Termina (RBCT) l in South Africa rejected its latest wage offer and will continue to strike, according to the main labor union at the port. Members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union lowered their demand to a one-year 7% basic salary increase and a housing allowance, said Bheki Sithole, the union’s regional secretary. RBCT, the biggest coal export facility on the continent, offered a minimum 6% annual increase for three years.
Les mer »
An Election with No Parties: Africa's Eswatini, One of the Last Absolute Monarchies, Holds VoteThe small southern African nation of Eswatini was holding elections Friday to decide part of the makeup of its parliament, even as its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power, political parties are banned and elected representatives can merely advise a monarch whose...
Les mer »