Nigeria: Chevron Union Shuts Down Offices Nationwide

Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (Pengassan) and Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Association (NUPENG) union members of local Chevron unit yesterday began strike at the Chevron’s administrative offices throughout the country.

The action has led to the closure of all Chevron offices in Nigeria but production has not been shut down and this is pending further meetings with the federal government.
Speaking with THISDAY, the branch chairman of Chevron PENGASSAN union, Comrade John Nwanosike, said; “A limited form of protest has started but we have not yet gone deep. We have not shut down the oilfields, but administrative functions are affected,” and that until the safely conditions are addressed, the workers would not go back to work.

According to Nwanosike,”the Nigerian government is not implementing their laws in the oil and gas industry, as they are allowing the International Oil Companies (IOC) to walk away with a lot of broken laws.

“Till now, the expatriate occupy 77 percent of the top management position, leaving Nigerians with only 23 percent and the union has put their feet down to demand for equal right and privileges, as Nigerians are put in the fore front to take all kinds of risk and yet they are not being given the same opportunity.

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