Anti-labour practice: PENGASSAN gives FG seven-day ultimatum
JUNE 30, 2013
President, PENGASSAN, Mr. Babatunde Ogun
The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has given the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum, following unresolved labour issues by the government.
In a letter to the Minister of Labour and Productivity, obtained by our correspondent on Friday, PENGASSAN said it “will be constrained at the end of its seven-day ultimatum to direct a nationwide industrial action on the myriads of persisting industry and labour related issues to which the association has severally drawn the attention of the Federal Government and call for the deserved expedient intervention to no avail.”
The association listed some of its grievances with the government to include: DPR under-funding, under-funded NNPC Pension Scheme, security challenges affecting crude oil supply to Port Harcourt Refining Company, impeding products refining, harmonisation of nomenclature of agencies along NNPC conditions, infringement of workers’ trade union rights and ILO convention 87 in Lamnalco.
It said, “The industry’s plight was rather exacerbated with overwhelming experiences of vandalism of pipelines and installations while oil theft, illegal refining and bunkering had degenerated rather than abating.
“PENGASSAN has painfully observed that the state is feigning helplessness and bereft of the right strategy to the social anomie. Panacea to the challenges should ordinarily transcend us as labour union; however, our concerns and resolves are premised on the manifestation of lip service than the required political will to deal with the challenges at hand.”
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