The National Industrial Court in Abuja has granted an interim injunction restraining the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Direct Trucking Company Drivers Association from embarking on any industrial action.
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has accused the Dangote Petroleum Refinery of sponsoring division within its Petroleum Tanker Drivers branch, resisting workers’ rights to unionisation, and deploying what it described as “falsehoods” to undermine the union.
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has dismissed recent allegations made by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), insisting that claims of anti-labour practices, monopolistic behaviour, and planned fuel price hikes are “entirely unfounded”.
The recently brokered peace by government between the Nigeria Union Of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and Dangote Refinery may be short-lived as NUPENG has accused Dangote Refinery of negating the resolutions reached at the peace meeting
The Department of State Services (DSS) has brokered peace between Dangote Group and the members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) over a dispute that borders on unionisation.
A meeting convened by the federal government to resolve NUPENG’s strike against alleged Dangote Refinery’s anti-union practices ended in a stalemate at dawn.
THE Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Dingyadi, has summoned the management of Dangote group and the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, to an emergency meeting today, in a frantic effort to halt the planned nationwide strike over alleged anti-union policy, among others.
Petrol marketers have reduced their pump prices to levels below what is being offered by the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
