PENGASSAN THREATEN NATION WIDE STRIKE FOR NON PASSAGE OF PIB, OTHERS

Nigerian workers under the auspices of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) have concluded plans to embark on a three-day warning strike in protest against the delay in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and other anti-labour activities of employers in the oil and gas sector. National Mirror says.

The warning strike follows the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum issued by the National Executive Council (NEC) of PENGASSAN to the federal government and other concerned employers’ and agencies in the sector.

In a statement, PENGASSAN’s President, Mr. Francis Johnson, said other issues are the perilous state of the nation’s strategic and industrial roads and highways, non-beneficial deductions of National Housing Fund, NHF, contributions from workers wages; failure to address pipeline vandalism and crude oil theft, and divestments by International Oil Companies, IOCs, without clear guidelines to check the resultant arbitrary job losses and heightening insecurity of our members/ families in the troubled parts of Northern Nigeria.

The statement said that all levels of the union have been fully sensitised and mobilised for the industrial actions that will affect every value chain in the upstream, midstream and downstream of the oil and gas industry.

On crude oil theft and acts of vandalism, the PENGASSAN president alleged high level collaboration of the security agencies, politicians and highly-placed Nigerians in the buccaneering rackets going on in oil and gas installations and the resultant crude oil theft, adding that the ugly trend signifies a looming extinction of the oil and gas industry with attendant job losses. “This further endangers the national economy with the persistent drop in crude oil prices”, he added.


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