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By Victor Ahiuma-Young
GENEVA — Global labour movement, IndustriALL Global Union, has condemned what it described arsenic a “relentless anti-union run by Dangote Refinery”, calling for the contiguous reinstatement of 800 workers, including engineers, allegedly dismissed for joining the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN.
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In a missive to the Group President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Geneva-based planetary national accused the refinery of “union-busting, intimidation, and misinformation” targeted astatine discrediting commercialized unions.
The General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, Atle Høie, successful the missive said: “I americium penning erstwhile again to explicit our heavy disappointment astatine the relentless and escalating anti-union run being carried retired by Dangote Refinery.
“This includes acts of intimidation and misinformation designed to discredit commercialized unions.
“IndustriALL Global Union calls connected Dangote Refinery to instantly reinstate the 800 engineers who were unfairly dismissed and to enactment an extremity to its anti-union practices.”
The planetary assemblage maintained that the sack of the engineers, soon aft joining PENGASSAN, constituted a usurpation of workers’ rights and a menace to concern bid successful Nigeria’s lipid and state sector.
“IndustriALL powerfully condemns Dangote Refinery’s persistent efforts to undermine commercialized national rights and weaken the long-established corporate bargaining structures of Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers of Nigeria, NUPENG and PENGASSAN, some arrogant affiliates of IndustriALL.
“These actions correspond a sedate breach of the principles of societal dialog and just labour practices.
“In this regard, IndustriALL stands successful afloat solidarity with PENGASSAN and supports its ongoing onslaught arsenic a morganatic effect to these unacceptable developments,” Høie stated.
IndustriALL besides reminded Dangote of the Memorandum of Understanding signed with NUPENG connected September 9, nether the mediation of the Federal Ministry of Labour and with the enactment of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.
It said: “In that agreement, Dangote Refinery committed to respecting workers’ rights, which are protected nether Nigerian labour laws, the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and planetary labour standards.
“It is profoundly troubling to larn that, conscionable days aft the signing, Dangote Refinery launched a run of misinformation and intimidation against workers.”
The planetary assemblage demanded that Dangote Refinery reinstate the 800 dismissed workers with afloat benefits, honour the statement with NUPENG and PENGASSAN, and guarantee transparency earlier immoderate aboriginal decisions affecting workers’ livelihoods.
“We impulse Dangote Refinery to clasp societal dialog and reconstruct a non-adversarial concern relations clime successful Nigeria’s lipid and state sector,” helium demanded.
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