{"id":314,"date":"2018-09-24T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/nnpc-moves-to-settle-chevron-union\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T00:30:00","slug":"nnpc-moves-to-settle-chevron-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/nnpc-moves-to-settle-chevron-union\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC moves to settle Chevron, union crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-oBXccDMtvrQ\/W6gvr0De8wI\/AAAAAAAADig\/P_Wc8aLPILka6yxvztQyCSAECyYjQA94QCLcBGAs\/s1600\/NNPC.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1000\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/NNPC.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has started consultation to resolve the issues raised by the leadership of the unions against Chevron.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe Group Managing Director (GMD), NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru, has urged oil workers to halt their planned strike over a labour dispute involving Chevron Nigeria.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe unions are National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nBaru made the appeal in a statement by NNPC\u2019s Group Public Affairs Manager, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja on Sunday.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, said he had directed the management to work with other stakeholders to resolve the issues raised by the leadership of the unions.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nHe appealed to the unions not to do anything that would disrupt the industrial harmony that had pervaded the sector.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe group managing director expressed fears that the gains of the recent past in the sector, if care was not taken, could be frittered away inadvertently.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nHe however expressed optimism that the current dispute would be settled amicably.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the unions had recently called on the National Assembly to intervene in the brewing impasse between CNL and its staff in Nigeria<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe unions further urged the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the NNPC and the Department of State Services (DSS) to also intervene.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nThe disagreements borders on the company\u2019s disclosure that the contracts with all its manpower services providers would expire by the end of October, 2018.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nConsequently, NUPENG and PENGASSAN, last week Wednesday, put their members on red alert.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nMeanwhile, the NNPC has allayed concerns of petroleum product consumers over possible hiccups in supply in parts of the country due to the workers\u2019 ultimatum.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\">\nIt gave the assurance that the corporation had adequate storage of petroleum products across the country to take care of the national demand.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has started consultation to resolve the issues raised by the leadership of the unions against Chevron. 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