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By Victor Young & Onozure Dania Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Thursday, alerted Nigerians of its plans to declare a nationwide industrial action over unfair labour practices by some indigenous oil companies. Although NUPENG did not disclose when the industrial action would begin, its President, Prince Williams Apkoreha, at a
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Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Total E &P Nigeria Limited over the termination of employment of their members and refusal to pay their entitlements by one of their contractors, Valiant/Vicadis.
Read More By Victor Young Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has petitioned Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Total E &P Nigeria Limited, over alleged unfair practices. They mentioned unlawful termination of employment of members and refusal to pay their entitlements by of one of their contractors, Valiant/Vicadis, as part of their grouses.
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*Ask companies to consider workers’ welfare while donating to COVID-19 By Victor Young Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and its Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, counterpart, on Tuesday, rejected perceived clandestine attempts by employers in the oil industry to sack their members, as fallout of the
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By Victor Young In a May Day message, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has advised employers in the nation oil industry against post-coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic anti-labour practices to ensure industrial peace in the petroleum industry. In the May Day message to its members and other workers in the country, the union
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By Victor Young Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, on Thursday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to, among others, arrest and prosecute a mobile policeman that allegedly killed a petrol station worker on April 5, at a filling station in Abia State, or risk industrial unrest. NUPENG, in a
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*…demands full investigation By Victor Young Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has expressed outrage over the killing of one of its members, Chibuisi Chikezie Okameme, aged 26, a petrol station worker in Abia State, on April 5. He was “killed by a mobile policeman while discharging his legitimate duty as a
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*Praises PTD, other workers on essential services National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has decried “security agents’ harassment and intimidation of oil companies workers on essential services. The union also called on oil companies and the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to provide adequate “security pass” for them to and fro work.
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Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has raised the alarm that many filling station owners had not provided hand sanitisers and other safety kits to the petrol station workers, PSW.
Read More *We are resolving with NUPENG national leadership -PHRC source By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, has given Federal Government and management of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC) 72 hours to reverse March 29th sack of over 175 contract workers or the union would shut supply
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