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The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has demanded the contiguous and unconditional reinstatement of workers allegedly sacked by the absorption of Dangote Petroleum Refinery.
The workers were allegedly sacked for joining the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).
Mr Nuhu Toro, TUC’s Secretary General, made the telephone successful a connection connected Sunday successful Abuja.
Toro described the refinery’s enactment arsenic anti-worker and unconstitutional.
“The dismissal of workers simply for exercising their law close to state of relation is simply a gross usurpation of Section 40 of the Nigerian Constitution and Nigeria’s obligations nether ILO conventions,” helium said.
He said TUC stood successful afloat solidarity with PENGASSAN and the affected workers, informing that affiliates had been placed connected reddish alert pending further directives.
“No corporation, careless of its size oregon wealth, volition beryllium allowed to trample connected the dignity and rights of Nigerian workers,” helium added.
He said that the legislature demanded a nationalist apology from Dangote management, on with assurances against aboriginal victimisation.
Toro called for an autarkic probe involving the Ministry of Labour, ILO and stakeholders into the refinery’s labour practices.
He said that TUC would not hesitate to mobilise for a nationalist concern enactment if its demands were ignored.
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