THERE are strong indications of a looming fresh round of industrial unrest in the nation’s Maritime sector over the lingering dispute between the Maritime Workers of Nigeria, MWUN, and the International Oil Companies, IOCs. MWUN and the IOCs have been at loggerheads over the latter’s alleged refusal to implement the “Marine Notice 106 of 2014.”
The Government Marine Notice 106 is also in tandem with Article 3 of International Labour Organization, ILO, Dock work Convention 137 which Nigeria ratified on the 22nd of March 2004. About three months later, MWUN raised concerns over the willingness of the government through the NPA to enforce compliance, accusing the NPA of playing to the gallery on the issue.In a chat, the President-General of MWUN, Prince Adewale Adeyanju lamented that up till now, Bello-Koko has refused to furnish the union with names of the IOCs that have complied.
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