The Maritime Employees Union of Nigeria (MWUN) has issued a nationwide strike risk scheduled for Tuesday, January ninth.
The proposed strike goals to close down all seaports, jetties, in addition to oil and fuel platforms throughout the nation.
In an announcement launched on Wednesday, John Ikemefuna, the union’s head of media, conveyed the choice on behalf of the President Common, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju.
The motion stems from the Worldwide Oil Firms (IOCs) and Stevedoring Contractors’ constant refusal to stick to the Stevedoring extant legal guidelines in regards to the Union’s pursuits.
The assertion specified that the Union had given a three-day discover to the Nigerian Ports Authority, starting Thursday, earlier than contemplating the strike as an inevitable choice.
Expressing dissatisfaction, the Union highlighted the persistent non-compliance of IOCs with the extant stevedoring rules since 2018.
Moreover, it emphasised the IOCs’ ongoing violation of remittance of Union check-off dues, regardless of quite a few makes an attempt to deal with these points with the Nigerian Ports Authority, which have confirmed futile.
“Recall that the Union had written a sequence of letters, press releases, ultimatums, and marine notices given by NIMASA and several other ministerial orders; all these have been serially ignored by the administration of the NPA.
The latest was dated June 13, 2023, with ref. no. MWUN/MD/NPA/SC/U/1.23, over duly signed communiques spanning over three years,” the assertion stated.
“The Union is, nevertheless, utilizing this medium to demand the entire compliance of IOCs with the stevedoring rules in keeping with the communiqués signed by all of the related stakeholders within the sector.
“The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), as a grasp stevedore and business regulator, is wholly saddled with the duty of granting operational licences to stevedoring firms to supply stevedoring companies for designated IOCs in Nigeria.
“The NPA additionally has the enduring obligation to make use of its oversight and regulatory authority to make sure respect for regulation and rules within the dealings of the Worldwide Oil Firms (IOCs), who make use of the companies of the stevedoring firms; and, by extension, Members of the Maritime Employees Union as Employees in (IOCs) make use of.
“Nonetheless, it’s saddening that the NPA has abdicated its sole duty by permitting the IOCs to run an unimaginable riot with out management within the sector.
“As a accountable social associate and a union that operates strictly in keeping with extant rules, MWUN has since 2018 severally delivered to the NPA’s consideration the refusal of the IOCs to honour the provisions of the extant stevedoring rules and the continued violation of the remittance of union check-off dues in keeping with the extant stevedoring rules.
“As a bridge of the extant stevedoring legal guidelines acknowledged, the Maritime Employees Union of Nigeria will shut down the seaports nationwide on Tuesday, ninth, 2024, after the expiration of the three (3) work days already given to NPA commencing on January 4th, 2024,” the assertion stated.
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