EXERCISE RESTRAINT ON STRIKE ACTION, BARU APPEALS TO OIL
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Managing Director (GMD), of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr.
Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers under the auspices of the National Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas
Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), to halt their planned
industrial action over a labour dispute involving the Management of Chevron
Nigeria Limited (CNL), a Multi-national Oil Company operating in Nigeria, and
its staff.
NNPC
Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, said,
the corporation’s GMD had directed its Management to work with other
stakeholders to resolve the issue raised by the leadership of the Oil Industry
unions.
The
unions had recently called on the National Assembly, the Federal Ministry of
Petroleum Resources, the NNPC, the Department of State Services (DSS), to
intercede in a brewing impasse between CNL and its staff in Nigeria over the
company’s disclosure that the contracts with all its manpower services
providers would expire by the end of October 2018.
Therefore,
the Industry unions put its members on red alert fearing the new manpower
services contracts may not serve the interests its members.
While
thanking the oil workers for their exemplary conduct and show of support
through the years, the GMD appealed to the unions not to do anything that would
disrupt the industrial harmony that has pervaded the sector, saying the gains
of recent past, if care is not taken, can be frittered away inadvertently.
Dr. Baru
expressed optimism that the current dispute would soon be amicably
settled.
Meanwhile,
the NNPC has allayed the concerns of motorists and other consumers of petroleum
products over possible hiccups in supply in parts of the country due to the oil
workers’ ultimatum, assuring that NNPC holds adequate storage of petroleum
products across the country to take care of national demand.
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