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MORE TROUBLE! PENGASSAN set for strike on Monday

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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, is set to embark on indefinite, nationwide strike beginning from Monday.

According to the association, the strike became necessary following a stalemate in the peace meeting brokered by the minister of petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, between the association and Neconde Energy Limited.

PENGASSAN and Neconde have been embroiled in crisis over allegation of anti-worker practices.

PENGASSAN, alleged that the management of Neconde wrongly terminated the employment of some of its workers, threatening to go on strike if the sacked workers were not recalled within 72 hours.

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The matter caused Kachikwu to initiate a meeting between the two warring bodies in Abuja during the week, but the meeting ended in a deadlock.

Fortune Obi, PENGASSAN’s spokesman, in a statement said it would embark on industrial action on Monday.

“Following the failure of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, to settle the rift between this body, PENGASSAN, and Neconde, the management of PENGASSAN has agreed to start the strike on Monday night (December 18th, 2017).

“Prior to the strike, PENGASSAN will hold an emergency Central Working Committee, CWC, meeting on Monday morning, which will be followed with announcement of strike on the night of Monday,’’ Obi said.

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The union said it has put its workers across the country on standby for the strike, adding that nothing whatsoever would stop the body from starting the strike by midnight on Monday.

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