 President's Chief of Staff, Femi Bajabiamila, has revealed that a provisional wage increase President Bolatimba announced for all low-grade workers for six months will cause across all workers. They followed a four-hour meeting between leaders of the organized labor and representatives of the federal government held at the Arsutra presidential villa. He expressed optimism that the labor unions would backtrack on the nationwide strike plan for Tuesday. People have rejected President Bolatimba's $25,000 provisional wage increment for low-grade workers. It also rejected the government's proposed six-month period for the provisional increase covers. But it should run until a new minimum wage is approved. The unions also insisted that the wage increase be reviewed upwards to $35,000. Do you see labor on government side? We will hopefully expect that labor will call the meeting of their various branches and executive tomorrow to present the agreements that have been reached and we pray and we believe and we hope that the strike will be called off on Tuesday. There was a lot of chatter on Twitter about the issue of low-income workers only falling into the category of the wage bill and they supported that and that as well. We did communicate with the president and he quickly did say and agree that all categories of workers will be given the wage bill. It's nothing like low-income, middle-income or high-income. It's very important for us to underscore something. Labor and government are not adversaries. Labor and government are working at least way forward in partnership for the good of the common man. That's important to underscore. Thank you very much. What the chief of staff have said while the meeting, you know, we have looked at almost all the issues, all the promissory notes, you know, from the government and we looked at how to translate them to reality and to be workable and then we're going to take those promises to our organs. Of course, you know, these people here cannot just look up and review and call off action. So like he said, we're hopeful that our organs will have a look at them and give a fresh mandate on what we have to do. Let me, on behalf of the TUC, also point out to the fact that we've had a series of conversations surrounding the issue raised and we do hope that by tomorrow we are going to get across to our organs so that we can also look at it and cross-fertilize ideas and see the way forward. I'm sure we are coming. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.