The Petroleum and Natural Gas
Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened nationwide
strike if some industrial issues and anti-labour practices by some employers in
the oil and gas industry were not addressed within 21 days.
The senior staff trade union said
this in a statement signed by the PENGASSAN National Public Relations Officer,
Fortune Obi, after its Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Abuja.
The Association berated the
maltreatment and anti labour practices against its members by management, while
calling on stakeholders to address issues within the stipulated ultimatum.
“PENGASSAN in the last three years has not
only been excessively stretched but equally unnecessarily over-burdened and is
fast running out of patience over the loss of will by various managements to
attend to industrial/welfare issues.
“Particularly frustrating is the
sustained, deliberate and indiscriminate redundancies, sack, actualization,
ill-treatment, adverse work condition, incessant disagreement to collective
bargain resolutions and other anti-labour practices against our members by
these managements without recourse to extant labour laws,” Obi said.
To this effect, the PENGASSAN
spokesperson said that the Association has directed the Zonal Executive
Councils, in the four zones of Port Harcourt, Lagos, Kaduna and Warri, to
commence systematic mobilization of its members for the planned action.
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