File image of dock workers.
By Victor AhiumaYoung
The Management of Ports & Terminal Multi services Limited, PTML, Tin Can Island Port, Apapa has retired and paid retirement benefits 74 Aged disengaged Dockworkers.
Similarly, 10 of the deceased Dockworkers were also paid their benefits through their next of Kins.
The payment exercise was made under the supervision of President-General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Prince Adewale Adeyanju, represented by a Vice President-General Bello Abubakir, President, Dockworkers Branch of the MWUN Ibrahim Ohize, and other officials of the Union.
Speaking, Prince Adeyanju noted that since inception of the terminal, this is the very first time that PTML would be applying the minimum salary standard as agreed by the National Joint Industrial Negotiating Council, NJIC, to the fullest, even surpassing what was recommended in the Collective Bargaining Agreement, CBA, for the payment of Dockworkers retirees in its Terminal.
He urged other terminals to take a cue from PTML.
He praised the management of PTML for taking such laudable bold step ito putting smiles on the faces of both the aged retirees and the family of the deceased who got the entitlements of their departed beloved ones.
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