PENGASSAN gives Mobil, GE, Indorama, Pan Ocean, others 21-day ultimatum

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has given a 21-day ultimatum to some oil and gas employers over anti-labour practices.
This is contained in a statement on Sunday by Fortune Obi, PENGASSAN’s Public Relation Officer.

He listed the companies as Fugro, Sterling Global, Indorama Petrochemical Company, Baker Hughes and General Electric.
Others are Universal Energy, Frontier Energy, Vam Onne, Neconde Energy and ObiJackson Group, SDF, Ciscon, Tecon, Obax, Pan Ocean, NNPC Retail Limited, Exxon-Mobil and Petrobras.
Obi said that PENGASSAN would shut down activities of the companies nationwide if they failed to resolve the industrial issues with the workers.

“The union gave the ultimatum due to persistent unfair industrial relation’s practices by the management of the companies in the sector”, he said.

According to him, PENGASSAN in the last three years has not only been stretched, but equally over-burdened.
“We are fast running out of patience over the loss of will by various managements to attend to industrial and welfare issues.
“Particularly, frustrating is the sustained indiscriminate redundancies, sack, casualisation, ill-treatment, adverse work condition and incessant disagreement to collective bargain resolutions,” he said.
Obi described as sad these anti-labour practices against PENGASSAN members without recourse to extant labour laws.