The federal authorities has efficiently brokered an settlement between the Petroleum and Pure Fuel Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the administration of Dangote Petroleum Refinery, resulting in a call to name off the affiliation’s strike motion and redeploy disengaged staff of the refinery.
The reconciliatory conferences on the occasion of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Dingyadi, had turn into crucial following the PENGASSAN’s directive to members to cease gasoline provide to Dangote Petroleum Refinery and withdrawal their companies over what was described because the illegal termination of over 800 of its members by the refinery’s administration.
As contained in communique signed by all events on the finish of the assembly, Dingyadi knowledgeable the assembly that unionisation was a proper of staff in accordance with the legal guidelines of Nigeria and that this proper ought to be revered.
The communique said that after inspecting the process used within the disengagement of staff, the assembly agreed that the administration of Dangote Group shall instantly begin the method of taking the disengaged workers to different firms throughout the Dangote Group, with no lack of pay.
“Whereas the management of PENGASSAN stated that the directives given to cease the provision of gasoline to Dangote Petroleum and withdrawal of companies was in response to the termination of appointment of over Eight Hundred members of PENGASSAN by the administration of the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Restricted, the administration of Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical however, defined the rationale for disengagement of the employees was because of the continuing reorganization within the firm.
“No employee will likely be victimised arising from their position within the deadlock between Dangote and PENGASSAN.
“PENGASSAN agreed to begin the method of calling off the strike. Each events agreed to this understanding in good religion,” it said.
The conciliation was attended by high-ranking officers of presidency, together with the Nationwide Safety Adviser; Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Financial system; Minister of Funds and Financial Planning; Minister of State for Labour and Employment; Director-Common of the Division of State Providers (DSS); Director-Common of the Nationwide Intelligence Company (NIA); Everlasting Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum Sources, representing the Minister of State for Petroleum Sources (Fuel); in addition to the Everlasting Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.
Additionally current have been the chief executives of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee (NUPRC), alongside representatives of the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Firm Restricted (NNPCL), the management of the Commerce Union Congress (TUC), and the President and Secretary-Common of PENGASSAN.
