NUPENG to take industrial action beginning from January 9th

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NUPENG to take industrial action beginning from January 9th

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The members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers are set to begin a three day strike which would commence from the 9th of January, 2017. The strike is against what they term as anti-labour practices of International Oil Companies (IOCs).
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According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr. Tokunbo Korodo, the Southwest Chairman of the Union, said that the strike was as a result of the failure of other options.He also said that the union gained nothing by embarking on the strike but the welfare of members of the union had to be protected.”˜Our members that put in their best within the duration of time they worked were not paid their severance packages by their employers when they sacked them. This is a big slap and it will not be allowed.’”˜What they are practising here in Nigeria, they cannot practise in their countries, so that is why we say enough is enough. We will take the bull by the horn’, he said.The chairman said what led to the planned warning strike was inherited by the present administration, while some occurred during the same government.”˜Two hundred and fifty members of our union were affected by the divestment of Chevron Nigeria Ltd in the South East and this was giving us serious concern because they cannot feed their families’.”˜The Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, asked all parties to maintain the status-quo ante and we complied because we respect the authority but the IOCs seem to be above the law or more powerful than the government; they failed to maintain the status-quo ante being amicably agreed to both parties. Chevron had to tell our 250 members that their contract with them was no more binding on it because it cannot trace the company that employed them as contract workers for it.’He further stated that the minister of Labour asked Chevron to pay the sacked workers but its management refused to comply.”˜It got to a time when Senator Ngige called for a mediation meeting in Abuja to which its members refuse to show up at times’.He alleged that all other IOCs in the country were involved in these anti-labour practices.He pointed out that if their grievances were not addressed on time, they would commence on a 3-day warning strike.

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