NUPENG CAUTIONS ON SACK IN CHEVRON & SHELL

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) is worried and concerned about the purported sack threat of about 18,500 workers, though, globally in Chevron and Shell. The union states that it is a sack too many, as oil workers in Chevron Nigeria and Shell will be affected. The union describes the sack threat as alarming which is adduced to the dwindling oil prices in the international market. NUPENG calls on the federal government to halt the threat of loss of jobs in Nigeriaby these multinational companies and wonders why Chevron and Shell should engage in the impending sack, when they have fully divested from on – shore oil fields. The Union adds that it will be morally unjustified for Chevron and Shell toretrench oil workers in Nigeria as they are carting away profits made from deep oil shores and joint venture gas projects. The union therefore condemns in its entirety the impending sack as it will not work with the current efforts of the Buhari administration to generate employment instead of job loses. NUPENG adds that it will amount to derailing the efforts of the government to provide jobs for Nigerians.It states that the oil giants should cut cost by employing Nigerians in positions where expatriates hold sway and are paid ten times what our people are getting. The union warns that it may be forced to embark on industrial action if the Federal government, through the regulatory agency, NNPC fails to stop Chevron and Shell from sending oil workers in Nigeria to the unemployment market.

Com. (Dr.) Igwe Achese National President