Admin l Monday, December 18, 2017
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, PENGASSEN has suspended the nationwide strike it embarked upon to press home their demand to reinstate their members who were sacked by the oil companies.
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The strike was suspended after the intervention by the Director of DSS,the Minister of Labour & Productivity, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and the NECONDE management represented by the MD & the legal consultants offered a letter recalling the sacked employees of the company.
Comrade Fortune Obi PENGASSAN National Public Relations Officer said the management also agreed to allow union to exist in the company.
According to him, the Minister of Labour& the union therefore agreed to endeavor to resolve anti-union posture by other indigenous companies & marginal field operators. While a meeting was fixed for second week of January 2018 to look at the issues.
