Nigeria Oil Unions Plan Three-Day Strike Over Labor Practices
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Nigeria’s two oil unions are poised to start a three-day strike this week to protest at what they say are unfair labor practices and also to press for the passage of a new law.
The precise timing of action will be announced once union leaders finish a meeting later today, Babatunde Oke, a spokesman of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, or Pengassan, said by phone from Lagos, the country’s commercial capital. Two calls and a text message to Ohi Alegbe, a spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., weren’t immediately returned.