Nigeria oil unions to launch warning strike

ABUJA (AFP)

Olowosile, who is general secretary of the powerful white-collar Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), said the federal government had failed to address the unions’ demands.

Both PENGASSAN and its blue-collar National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers served the strike notice on March 2.

Olowosile said “the nation’s oil industry will be crippled for the three days”.

He warned that if nothing was done at the end of the warning strike on Friday, the two unions would not hesitate to call an indefinite strike.

AFP