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Article

11 May 2017

Author:
Segun Adebowale, The Eagle Online (Nigeria)

Nigeria: Workers in the oil industry embark on protest action against "anti-labour practices in Mobil" following the sacking of 83 employees

"Anti-labour practices in Mobil: Workers to cut 660,000bpd oil production in Nigeria", 11 May 2017

[W]orkers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria [PENGASSAN], have started gradual withdrawal from oil and gas installations belonging to Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, the Nigeria’s ExxonMobil arm...Addressing the workers during the picketing of ExxonMobil Office in Lagos on Wednesday, the PENGASSAN Lagos Zonal Chairman, Comrade Abel Agarin, said there has been gradual shutting down of the plants in Mobil locations all over the country...“By Friday, other International Oil Companies such as Chevron, Shell, Addax, Total and Agip and indigenous oil companies will join"...Members of PENGASSAN started a three-day warning strike on Wednesday to protest the refusal of the ExxonMobil management to honour an agreement reached during a tripartite meeting with the senior staff union and the Ministry of Labour and Productivity. They said in the agreement brokered by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, the management agreed to review the sack of 83 employees in December and that none of the workers that participated in a protest in December will be sanctioned for their actions...“Without honouring the agreement, the management went ahead to suspend other union leaders in the company that took part in the December protest [Agarin said]...