The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has directed its members to down tools from July 7 to protest the non-implementation of agreements reached by the body and the Federal Government in May.
According to a memo to members the oil body dated July 4, the planned action is expected to affect all oil installations, offices, sites and production facilities.
Emmanuel Ojugbana, Public Relations Officer of PENGASSAN, had said, “Despite the agreement that employers should put on hold redundancy in the industry, some managements such as Fugro, Universal Energy, Frontier Services and Petrostuff went ahead to sack many of our members including key union officers and national officer.”
“I want to reiterate our demands that the Federal Government and the concern organisations, including H15, IEME Chevron, Universal Energy, Chevron Contracts Tecon and Avion Oil and Fugro should resolve the critical industrial relation issues in their companies; particularly in the recent retrenchment in Fugro and Petrostuff should be reversed.”
“Let us state unequivocally that industrial peace in the oil and gas sector will not be guaranteed if these issues, especially the retrenchment in Fugro, are not resolved within seven (7) days effective Monday, June 20, 2016.”
