The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association said on Monday that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had sacked 850 contract workers at the nation’s refineries.
The unions disclosed this in a joint statement signed by the National President, NUPENG, Williams Akporeha, and his counterpart in PENGASSAN, Mr Ndukaku Ohaeri, as well as their general secretaries.
The statement was entitled ‘NUPENG and PENGASSAN strongly react to comments by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, on refineries and oil and gas workers’.
“On the purported threat of the Group Managing Director of NNPC to sack workers, we wish to state here that it was actually no more a threat but that it had already been carried out with the sack of 850 support staff in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic, throwing almost a thousand workers into hard financial situation without an iota of empathy or consultation with the union,” it said.
The unions said they never threatened to go on strike, but that they only demanded to be engaged for a proper discussion on the commensurate terminal benefits of the workers who had worked for 10 to 15 years.
They said, “We found it rather highly inhuman and unfair on the part of NNPC management to sack these workers with only their last paycheques after 15 good years of their lives in NNPC.
“If a Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Group Managing Director of NNPC can dismiss contract workers that have served for more than 10 years continuously as if they are rodents, what more can we expect from lOCs. The monthly salaries of 25 of these contract staff put together cannot equal a typical management staff salary of the same organisation.”
Impossible
Hmmm
This is serious
Alright
For the betterment of the citizen
850????
Ah
This is serious
Ah
This is serious
Kilode
Thanks for the update
This is somehow especially during this pandemic period
May God help us
It is well
Hmm
Subhannallah
It is unavoidable in a country like Nigeria
really
Not okay
Comment:quite bad
Thanks
for the update
sacked
Nice posting
Nice sharing
Nigerian one nation
This is serious
We are in the middle of a pandemic for crying out loud
Thanks for the update
Thanks for the info
Okayooo
Thanks for sharing
Nice update
Hmmmm
Nice info
No pro
God help us all
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May Allah help them
Impossible
Really
God will help us
Naija
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the update
And pandemic is on ooo
Ok
Really
O.M.G
That’s a large number
God will see us through o
Thanks for sharing