The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) today, commenced a 3-day warning strike over unfair labour practices by oil multinationals such as Chevron, Shell and Agip.
NUPENG’s General Secretary, Comrade Isaac Aberare, made this known over the weekend in a press statement.
Aberare maintained that the oil workers have no choice than to embark on the warning strike as National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) refused to implement the signed collective bargaining agreement with the petroleum tanker drivers.
According to him: “The strike is to protest the refusal of NARTO to implement the signed collective bargaining agreement with the petroleum tanker drivers and the sorry state of our roads across the nation.
“The union is calling on the Nigerian public for understanding, as all efforts by the federal ministry of labour three weeks ago has failed.
“The union have exhausted all efforts for a stakeholders’ meeting in the oil and gas sector to address the situation, but the oil multinationals have failed to implement the agreement reached for a truce in the meeting brokered by the minister of labour, Chief Emeka Wogu.
“The union therefore has directed all its members in the depots to stop loading petroleum products for the next three days, with members in all the branches in the country to follow suit,” he said.
According to him , the union had agreed that if after the 3-day warning strike, nothing is done to address the situation, it would be forced to embark on an indefinite strike action nationwide
Courtesy: leadership.ng
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