Chevron To Reinstate 32 Sacked Workers

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has announced that Chevron Nigeria Limited will recall 32 workers it sacked in Warri, Delta State, in December 2019.

NUPENG had on January 1, 2020, given Chevron's management a seven-day quick ultimatum in a written letter that the administration should recall the 32 staff that were sacked because they joined the union.

The Union pledged to take legal and industrial action if nothing is done by the end of seven days.

On January 7, 2020, the General Secretary, NUPENG, Mr Afolabi Olawale, announced that CNL has responded to their order after a meeting scheduled by Managing Director Mele Kyari of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC on Tuesday.

He said that Chevron’s management had promised during the meeting with stakeholders that it would reinstate the 32 workers within the next three weeks.

 “We have suspended the industrial action earlier planned for today (Wednesday) because the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had intervened by convening a meeting involving our union and the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited.

“It was the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mele Kyari, who intervened by delegating a representative to organise a meeting which held on Tuesday. At the meeting, the management of Chevron Nigeria Limited promised to recall and reinstate the 32 workers affected within three weeks.

“We are waiting for them to fulfil their promise within the time frame given,” he said.