The Federal Government may intervene in the industrial dispute between the management of Chevron and it workers should the parties fail to resolve issues by Monday evening. The move is part of government’s effort to de-escalate the crisis.
Lumumba Okugbawa, general secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), in a telephone interview, told BusinessDay that another meeting had been scheduled in Abuja for Tuesday, where the minister of labour and productivity, Chris Ngige, is expected to mediate.
H said: “The PENGASSAN unit in Chevron was meeting with the management. We hope that the issue would be resolved. But if not, the minister of labour and productivity will step in.”
The workers were said to have taken to protest when they discovered that their allowances were seriously slashed by the managing directors.
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According to inside sources, after every agreement reached between the management and workers some allowances are paid to the workers across board. But this time around the managing director was said to have told the workers that the economic situation of the company would not allow him do much in respect of allowances. So, he employed flat rate formula for everybody to the extent that even the people at the lowest level of the salary cadre became so dissatisfied with the development.
The PENGASSAN, Chevron branch has called for the removal of the chairman and managing director of Chevron, Jeff Ewing.
There was protest in all Chevron facilities across the country, Monday.
They said the protest was to express their lack of no confidence with the leadership of Jeff Ewing.
According to them, he should be removed and never be re-assigned to another office for his lack of integrity.
