Indications emerged on Monday that Chevron Nigeria Limited had recalled sacked members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers. The National Secretary of the union, Afolabi Olawale, disclosed this in a telephone interview with our correspondent. He explained that the union’s meeting with the management of the CVL was the outcome of a truce organised by the Group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari. He said, “A lot of progress has been made. First, we suspended the planned industrial action, based on the intervention of the GMD, NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari.
Meetings have been held with the management of the Chevron Nigeria. They sent a representative. “I am happy to tell you that we have signed a new agreement which still consists of our earlier demands. It was due to the breach of the old agreement that warranted the signing of a new agreement. “Our union members that were sacked have been asked to return to work. We thank the GMD, NNPC, for his intervention. He was quite instrumental to the success recorded in ending the NUPENG-CNL face-off.”
(Punch)
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