NUPENG suspends strike

 
   

 National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)  suspended its three-day warning strike, which began yesterday, following a resolution reached with government, International Oil Companies (IOCs), and other stakeholders in the industry over the contentious issues, staving off another round of debilitating fuel scarcity that would have hit the nation.


    The union had embarked on the a three-day warning strike over casualisation, job security issue, non-implementation of collective agreement in the oil and gas sector in the country, and the balkanisation of the ongoing divestment system in the industry.

    National President, Mr.Igwe Achese, said the decision to embark on the strike was taken at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. NUPENG maintained that it would resist any divestment plan by the IOCs that does not carry it along, especially in OML 53 and 55 operated by Chevron and now OML 30.

But at the end of their meeting yesterday, Igwe, who addressed newsmen after the meeting that lasted over five hours, said, “having been satisfied with the commitment shown by the Ministry of Petroleum Resources over the issues, the union hereby suspends the strike.”