Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Shell Petroleum Development Company SPDC, Port Harcourt branch have embarked on a three day warning strike, demanding that SPDC should give its workers palliatives to cushion the ripple inflation of subsidy removal.
The protesting workers told ait.live in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, South-South Nigeria, that they will ground activities of the multi-national Oil Company IOC, if their demands are not met.
Activities came to a halt at the Port Harcourt office of the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC Industrial Area, as placards carrying members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN embarked on a three-day warning Protest, calling on the management of the Oil Multi-national oil company to stop their act of racism and provide palliatives for its workforce to cushion the effects of subsidy removal.
The protesting workers, while condemning the role of the International Oil Companies in the removal of subsidy, insisted that Nigerian workers must not be treated as slaves in their own Country.
The Organised Labour Union has threatened that at the expiration of the three-day ultimatum to the IOC if nothing changed, they will be left with no other option than to shut down the activities of SPDC across the country.
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The protesting workers, while condemning the role of the International Oil Companies in the removal of subsidy, insisted that Nigerian workers must not be treated as slaves in their own Country.
(Editor : Ena Agbanoma)
