Lagos, Nigeria: entrance to the RoRo port - Nigerian Ports Authority - photo by A.Bartel
Maritime workers begin strike Monday, to shut down port operations
Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria has directed all port workers and its other members nationwide to begin an industrial action on Monday over poor pay and welfare package.
The union asked the workers to shut down all operations of shipping companies and port terminals from Monday.
President-General of MWUN, Adewale Adeyanju, gave the order at a press briefing in Lagos.
He said that since 2018, they had been having a running battle with the shipping companies on the welfare of workers.
According to him, despite several ultimatums and interventions of the immediate past Minister of Transportation, Muazu Sambo, the shipping companies, mostly multinationals, had refused to yield.
Adeyanju lamented that the working conditions of the workers in the nation’s shipping industry were nothing short of modern-day slavery.
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