The leadership of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) have sent greetings to the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC)
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Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has waded into the rift between the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, and the International Oil Companies, IOCs, over perceived breach of local content act and other extant Labour laws.
Following the NPA’s intervention, the leaders of MWUN, have extended the seven-day strike notice to the Federal Government to compel the IOCs to respect the local content law among others allegedly being breached by the IOCs in the past eight years.
Recall that the union had
on April 9, issued a seven-day strike noticeover alleged non-compliance of the IOCs to extant Stevedoring regulations and the Marine/Government Notice No. 106 on Stevedoring regulations 2014, issued by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA.
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