Labour directs workers to shut operations, begin nationwide strike Monday
A long-running dispute with shipping businesses about the inadequate pay package and welfare of employees has prompted the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, or MWUN, to order workers to shut down all activities of shipping companies and to start an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday.
Prince Adewale Adeyanju, MWUN President-General, bemoaned that since 2018, Organized Labor has been fighting with shipping businesses over the minimal criteria for shipping companies regarding the welfare of workers, but to no avail.
He claimed that despite numerous demands and interventions from Muazu Sambo, the nation’s former minister of transportation, the shipping companies—mostly multinationals—had refused to budge, expressing regret that the working conditions of the country’s shipping industry’s employees were nothing short of modern-day slave conditions.
